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Answer by Stanislav Bashkyrtsev for Why are metals conductive in terms of...

It's not that the electrons are completely unbound from the atoms - they still attract each other and form the bonds with other atoms. But the attraction between the atom and its electron is pretty...

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Why are metals conductive in terms of orbitals?

Back in high school I was taught a definition of metals:Metals are a lattice of positive nuclei embedded within a sea of delocalised electronsMetals are conductive because the electrons aren't bound to...

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