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All substances conduct. Some conduct electrons "one per minute" for a given geometry, and others many multiples of ten times as many electrons in the same unit time for the same geometry.

If the substance contributes electrons to a "general pool" of free electrons as if forms the state it is in, then those electrons can be "circulated" much more easily (conductor). If the electron has to be liberated by thermal or electrical fields from a strong chemical bond, then currents will be very much smaller (insulator, semi-conductor).

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