On Jun 7, 2:52*pm, BURT wrote:
On Jun 7, 2:48*pm, PD wrote:





On Jun 7, 5:44*pm, BURT wrote:

On Jun 7, 2:36*pm, PD wrote:

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On Jun 7, 12:54*pm, "Cwatters"

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How are electrons passed from one atom to the next when atoms are
spherical? Do they rotate around the orbital and jump to the next
atom's orbital? Do they move in curves around the atoms orbitals when
conducting them?

Electricty ought to start on one side of an atom move around to the
opposite side and then jump.

Mitch Raemsch; Twice Nobel Laureate 2008

I thought this was a home work question at first... then I noticed the sig.
Oh dear.

Questions are the beginning. How does electricity move around the
atom?

OK, so at least you asked a question. In a metal, the atoms form
metallic bonds, which is a peculiar sort of arrangement where some of
the electrons in each atom are shared communally. That is, these
electrons don't belong to any particular electrons, and they move
quite freely in a sea of weakly attractive centers.

You can think of it as a neighborhood where children are not kept
confined to their parents' houses, but are allowed to wander the
neighborhood and visit in other houses.

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Shared electrons can only be in one atom at a time. How are they
exchanged from one atom to the next atom?

If an electron is on the other side of the atom it cannot bond that
atom to the other.

Electrons drift from one atom to another when you apply an electric
field over the metal, such as when you touch a wire to both ends of a
battery. The jiggling that this motion causes in the attractive
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Do electrons drift in the atomic shell's curves?

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Electrons push each other to the opposite side of the atom's orbital
where they jump to the next atom. They then move from the near side to
the far side and repeat the process as they are pushed from atom to
atom.