Why Do Metals Conduct Electricity?

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. 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.
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.

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A metallic bond is a force of attraction between a positively charged metal ion and the electrons in a metal. Metals tend to have high melting points and boiling points suggesting strong bonds between the atoms. Metals are good conductors of electricity because they have positive metal ions free in a sea of electrons which carry the electric charge hence metals are considered to be good conductors of electricity.

Metals conduct  electricity because they have positive metal ions free in a sea of electrons which carry the electric charge

It is because metals contain moible ion(which can move freely from the surrounding)

Because they are good electrical conductors.

Because metals are good conductors because they are solid.

Metals are good conuctors of electicity because they have possitive metal ions free in a sea of electrons which carry the electric charge hence metals are considered to be good conductors of electricity.
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-  sea of electrons
+ possitive ions
o metal ions

Metal are good conductors because they positive charges through out the metal there for causing it to let electricity run through it.

The diagram would be like this:
    -   -  -     -   -    -    -    -    -  -
- -(+)(+)(+)(+)(+)(+)(+)(+)(+)-
- -  (+)(+)(+)(+)(+)(+)(+)- -
(+)(+)(+)(+)(+)(+)(+)(+)(+)-  -
-  -    -   -   -   -    -    -   -    -

(+) positive ions
- delocalized electrons

Because they have a large number of poorly bound electrons. These electrons form an electron cloud when large numbers of metalic atoms are together.

If you add some electrons to one side of a bunch of metalic atoms other electrons will pop out on the other side. If this bunch of metalic atoms are in the form of a wire, well you have a wire conducting electricity.

Metals are capable of conducting electricity because their atoms and therefore electrons are held rigidly in place.