Is wood a good conductor for electricity?

Answer 1

Wood can conduct electricity but it does not do it well.

Dry wood is a poor conductor of electricity and is used as an insulating material.

You can touch an electrified wire with a piece of dry wood and not get shocked.

When wood is green or wet, its conductivity increases greatly.

If you touch an electrified wire with a piece of wet wood there is danger of serious shock.

Said differently, the resistance of wood decreases greatly as the moisture content increases.

Saturated wet wood has a resistance of 1,000 to 10,000 Ohm-meters.

Wood that has been oven dried has a resistance that is a billion or trillion times greater.

Materials like copper and aluminum that one normally thinks of as good electrical conductors have resistant that is more than a billion times smaller than wet wood.

Insulators like glass have a resistance a million time greater than dry wood.

Answer 2

No, it is a poor conductor. The biggest factor would be the moisture content of the wood. Water is a better conductor than wood so the more moisture in the wood the better it would conduct electricity.
Steel is a good conductor of heat and water is a good conductor for electricity

Generally a good conductor of heat is a good conductor of electricity.

Improved

this can be explained by looking at the structure of metals.

structure: in a pure metal, the layers of positively charged ions are arranged in a regular pattern surrounded by a sea of mobile electrons.

ans: the outermost electrons of the ions in metals are mobile, thus, they are able to transfer heat and electricity easily.

Answer 3

No because a electrical conductor is ether metal, steel or something related to that along those lines

In the case of electricity,the wood is not a conductor, although wood by itself is not a conductor, wood that is wet can conduct electricity.

Answer 4

What are you smoking? Wood, unless it is soaked in salt water until it is waterlogged barely conducts electricity. There was a reason that they originally used wood as an insulator for early telegraph lines.

Answer 5

Wood can conduct electricity. It depends on the moisture content of the wood in question. It is tree boughs touching primary voltage lines that usually cause power outages in storms.

When a bough touches a high voltage line there is a very high current flow through the tree to ground. It is this high current flow through the wood of the tree that trips the line circuit breakers off. The line re-closers will try once to re-energize the line to see if the fault has cleared.

If the bough has burnt off due to the high heat of the fault, the power will stay on. If the bough is still in the shorting position, the utility company has to come and clear the line manually.

Answer 6

Dry wood does not conduct electricity. But it is important to note that wet wood, or any wood that has a large amount of sap in it, will conduct electricity if voltage is applied to it.

Answer 7

Dry seasoned wood can be used for an insulation purposes. Wet green wood will conduct electricity, as an example when lightning hits a tree. The tree will conduct the charge to the ground.

Answer 8

No,it is not. But when the wood is struck by lightning, it will become a temporary conducter of electricity

Answer 9

no, unless it is wet