can liquid.. metal.. "liquid iron" for example conduct electricity.?
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yes they do.  Metals, metallic solutions,melts of metals, metallic films, metallic coatings conduct electricity.(They are metals)
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Best ones are the metal elements with "spare" electrons.\nGold\nSilver\nLead\nCopper\nIron\nEtc.\nPS Pure water doesn't conduct electricity - it's the impurities or trace elements that do the conducting
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No\n\nThe reason this has\nnever happened is due to the source of magnetic fields:  moving electric\ncharges.  When electric charges (e.g. electrons) move in circles, they\nproduce a magnetic field.  In a piece of iron, it is very easy to line up\nthese circles, getting all the little magnets to work together as one big\nmagnet.\n\nFor each of these circles, one side is the north pole and one side is the\nsouth pole.  Since each circle has two sides, each circle has a north and a\nsouth pole.  Even the smallest possible magnets (spinning electrons) have a\nnorth and a south pole.
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Use the Nickel Metal..Put your steel into a electrolysis solution of Nickle  electrolytes and charge it with electric anode and cathodes.
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yes.  saltwater is salty, meaning it has a lot of ions.  Lots of ions conduct electricity.
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An example of a conductor (of presumably heat and electricity) are any metal, such as gold, silver, nickel, platinum, iron.\n\nAn example of an insulator is rubber.
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Electromagnetic waves??? thats something ive never heard of before. how about posting the article or the website online? \n\ni do know that electricity can be "transmitted" by magnetism, via electromagnetic induction. according to faraday's law, a changing rate of magnetic flux linkage induces an electromotive force, and thus induces current on a conductor. check out faraday's law at wikipedia for more info dude...
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In reality, normal water is a very weak conductor. It is possible to be electricuted while in the water, as in the bathtub example, but in the open waters, only things in very close proximity to the lightning strike will be affected. In actuality, pure water doesn't conduct electricity at all, but when things are dissolved in the water it can carry a current. This also explains why being shocked in your bathtub is more prominent- there are soaps and oils dissolved in the water.
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A metal is made up of a lattice of positive metal cations in a sea of delocalised electrons.  The strong forces of electrostatic attraction which exists between these electrons and the positive lattice, is the metallic bond.\n\nAs the electrons are free to move, being delocalised, a metal can conduct electricity.  The more there are of electrons, the better the electrical conductivity of the metal.  For example, aluminium will conduct electricity better than magnesium.  This is because aluminium forms Al3+ releasing 3 electrons per every Al atom.  Magnesium only released 2 electrons per atom, forming Mg2+.\n\nMalleability can be accounted by the fact that layers of positive ions can slide above other layers.
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False, because the binding energy increases steeply till iron and again reduces. So I would require enormous accelerators to transmute the element with Z>20.
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No, that is not true.  If you have a more dense metal, it may take more energy to heat it up, but that is because there is more mass.  Water has a very high specific heat, but it is definately less dense than metals.  I believe specific heat is determined by quantum mechanical properties.
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good conductors are material with very tight atomic structure. Remember you are talking about electron flow here. they flow best and easies through material with very tight atomic make up like lead gold copper aluminum silver so forth. Most good conductors are non ferrous metals. This means If you heat them up to melting point they will not get red hot first, you will see very little color change in them from solid to liquid state.
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The atomic bonds in sugar are very tight and do not allow for (measurable) ionization, which is what helps water conduct electricity.  Salt (NaCl) is a powerful ionization agent - the Cl atom "steals" Na's outer electron, forming a Na+ ion, which attracts new electrons introduced into the water.  We call that a conductor!
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1) metal is a good conductor of electricity, and when charges are placed inside a conductor, they tend to spread out so that there's an even charge distribution.  since the object inside the metal enclosure is surrounded by charge on all sides, the electric field vectors from the charged metal enclosure cancel out on the inside.  therefore, there is no electric field inside the metal enclosure.\n2) yes, it's true that electricity flows from regions of high voltage to regions of lower voltage.  but if you attach a negative terminal to a positive terminal without putting some electrically-powered devices in between, you'll end up frying your battery really fast.
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Any electromegnetic wave, be it light, electricity or x-rays, travels in a wave which has amplitude and wavelength.  For every electromagnetic wave, there is also created a magnetic wave that travels along with it.  If the light wave is going up and down, the magnetic wave will br traveling side to side.  This is the basis for the incredibly simple device, the electromagnet.  If you wind copper wire around a tube, and then pass a current through it, the electricity flows, but also creates a magnetic wave, which will be attracted to iron in the same way a regular magnet would.
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I think water you know that the tap wtaer is hard water i.e it contains excess of Ca++ ions and also the water is made up up of h20 which is ionic in nature and now the the original part when the person touches the switch cause the person is covered all of his body with hard water which is a 98.456% conductor of electricity he gets a svere shock also you should be knowing humanbody is also a conductor of electricity blood is acetic so both media media make good conductors of electricity and no obstruction is observed. In this way the person may also die.\n so always when working with electricity wear rubber slippers which are insulators (dont conduct current).\n GO ON KEEP ASKING
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Yes, it is possible for lightning to strike water.  It happens all the time.  Lightning is the result of a difference in potential between two bodies.  When the potential is great enough, electricity jumps from the negatively charged body to the positively charged body.  The two bodies can be a cloud and a tree, a cloud and the ground or a cloud and water or from one cloud to another.  Therefore, lightning can be cloud to ground, cloud to cloud or even within a cloud.  What happens when the lightening bolt strikes the water is that at the immediate point of the strike, the temperature of the water instantly reaches the boiling point.  Given the extreme temperature of a lightning bolt and the extreme charge, I would suspect that not only is steam formed but a plasma is also likely formed at the immediate point of the strike.  As to what happens to any biological life at the point of the strike, it would depend on how near they are to the strike.  The closer they are to it, the more likely that they could be killed by the sudden change in temperature and potential.