{"id":579814,"date":"2010-05-26T04:53:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T08:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/93c1e2893bc6e1fdd21147aa73090d8b"},"modified":"2010-05-26T04:53:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T08:53:21","slug":"why-do-metals-conduct-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579814","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Metals Conduct Electricity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metals conduct electricity because of their structure. If you take a block of any metal, it would be made up of a lattice of atoms surrounded by a sea of electrons that should have been in the outer electron shell. <\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q2\/q21\/q213\/q2135\/q213505_475245_951_2321662040_026dbb5d3c.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/css\/common\/cc.png\" style=\"vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;border:0;\" title=\"Creative Commons License\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/37996591129@N01\/\" >Nufkin<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There is a reason for this behaviour. The metal atoms are so large that the outer electron shell is very far away from the nucleus. The positive charge on the nucleus pulls the electrons into a cloud around it. If the distance between the positive and the negative particles (electrons) is very high, the strength of attraction between them would also be very weak and thus the electrons move out of the orbit and into a sea of electrons around all the atoms of a metal. That is also why metals have a large affinity to lose electrons in any chemical reaction.<\/p>\n<p>This sea of electrons carries a negative charge. When electric current is applied to one end of any metal body, these electrons take the electric charge up and carry it to the other end. That is how metals conduct electricity.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/anyIa7lRBB0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metals conduct electricity because of their structure. If you take a block of any metal, it would be made up of a lattice of atoms surrounded by a sea of electrons that should have been in the outer electron shell. Nufkin There is a reason for this behaviour. The metal atoms are so large that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}