Metal conductors usually conduct electricity and heat. Usually, that’s true, but researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and at the University of ...

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Electrical current flows easily through a conductor, but does not flow through an insulator. Find out more with BBC Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

Most metals are just very good conductors of heat. So when you go outside on a 10-below day and grab a piece of metal with your bare hand, heat is rapidly conducted from your hand into the metal.