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ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR

Electrical conductors are materials that allow an electric current to pass through it. This could be a wire or combination of wires not insulated from one another. When an electric potential difference is impressed across separate points on a conductor, the mobile charges within the conductor are forced to move, and an electric current between those points appears in accordance with Ohm's law.electrons in their atoms move between atoms very easily. Any materials, such as aluminum, copper (commonly used in electrical wiring) or gold, that offers little resistance to the flow of electrical current. The material efficiently transfers an electrical charge because it has an excess of unbound electrons and easily gives them up.The most common conductor is an electrical wire.

 


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