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No One today is not surprising that, touch the key switch, we see a lit light bulb. Often we do not even think that all such actions are based on a series of physical phenomena. One of these very interesting phenomena - metal conductivity, which allows the flow of electric current.

For starters, perhaps you should decide what it all about. So, conductivity is the ability of a material to pass an electrical current. Moreover, different substances have this ability in varying degrees. The degree of conductivity of the substances are divided into conductors, semiconductors and insulators.

If you look at experimental data obtained by researchers during the study of electric current, it becomes clear that the conductivity of the metal is the highest. This is confirmed by everyday practice, when to transmit electrical current using a metal wire. It is the metals in the first place are conductors of electrical current. And the explanation can be found in the electron theory of metals.

According to the latest Explorer is a crystal lattice, the nodes of which is occupied by atoms. They are very tightly connected with neighbouring like atoms, so they remain virtually in the crystal lattice. What can be said about the electrons from the outer shells of atoms. These electrons are free to move randomly, forming a so-called "electron gas". Here the electronic conductivity of the metal and based on these electrons.

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As evidence that the nature of the electric current due to the electrons, we can recall the experience of the German physics Rikke raised in 1901. He took two copper and one aluminum cylinder with a carefully polished end faces, put one on another and passed through them electric current. The intent of the experimenter, if the conductivity of metals is due to the atoms, then there would be the transfer of matter. However, after passing an electric current in the course of the year mass of the cylinders is not changed.

From this result the conclusion that the conductivity of metals is caused by some particles that are inherent in all conductors. This role just fit the electron, which by this time was already open. In the future, have conducted several ingenious experiments, and they all confirmed that the electric current due to the motion of electrons.

In accordance with modern ideas of crystal lattice of metals in the nodes are ions and electrons are relatively free to move between them. That is a large number of electrons and provides the high electrical conductivity of metals. If you have a small potential difference at the ends of the conductor, these free electrons begin to move, which causes the flow of electric current.

It should be noted Here that the conductivity depends strongly on temperature. So, when temperature increases the conductivity of the metal decreases, and Vice versa, increases with decreasing temperature, until the phenomenon of superconductivity. At the same time, it should be remembered that although the conductivity possessed by all metals, its value for each of them its own. The best conductivity of the most widely accepted and applied in electrical engineering metal has copper.

So, the given material gives the notion of what constitutes the electrical conductivity of the metals, explains the nature of electric current and explains what caused it. The description of the crystal lattice of metals and the influence of some external factors on conductivity.


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