in this video we're gonna see what

materials act as electrical conductors

and what materials act as electrical

insulators so when I connect the

material from the yellow wire to the red

wire if the light bulb lights up it's a

conductor if it does not then it's an

insulator as you can see wood doesn't

conduct electricity Wood is an insulator

so here we have a metal screw metals

conduct electricity because the

electrons in the metals are free to move

and so they can carry charge from one

place in the metal to another place and

so that's why metals can conduct

electricity it has free flow and charged

particles here we can see that plastic

is not a conductor of electricity the

light bulb is off and there's no

electric current flowing in this circuit

glass doesn't conduct electricity either

as you can see the light is off however

I do want to mention this though

molten glass let's say if you heat it up

and melt glass molten glass is a

conductor electricity you can check out

some YouTube videos on that on the

molten glass does it connect electricity

then people have a passing them they

made some demonstrations on it so in its

solid form it does not conduct

electricity but in its molten or semi

liquid form it can conduct an electric

current now here's a question for you

if the glass doesn't conduct electricity

why is the light bulb on now this is a

special type of glass it's called IPO

glass it's made up of indium tin and

oxide now this glass can conduct

electricity it's transparent but it does

have a measurable resistance if I move

the two wires apart the light bulb will

be left in let me close the kitchen

light and notice what's gonna happen as

you could see the light bulb is not as

bright as before because the two metal

wires they're further apart on the ITL

glass and so there's more resistance in

a circuit

thus the light bulbs brightness has

decreased now let's test awarded as we

can see water doesn't conduct

electricity very well the light bulb is

off so water is considered an insulator

what's going to happen if we put salt in

the water let's find out

some add in the salt to the water

we'll have to give it time for the light

bulb to get brighter

I think you can see the light bulb

lighten up it's still dim but it's turn

it off let's close that light and now

you can see it so saltwater does connect

electricity but it does have a

relatively high as somewhat high

resistance but it's going to take some

time for the salt to dissolve does

increase in the electrical conductivity

of the solution so water is an insulator

but saltwater is an electrical conductor

the reason why the saltwater can conduct

electricity is because it has

free-flowing islands the ions which

carry charge they're free to move from

one side of the solution to the other

side there's completing a circuit so

anytime you have a material or solution

that has mobile charge carriers that

material or solution can conduct

electricity as long as those charged

particles that free to move electricity

can be conducted through that material