These are materials (usually metals) which have unfilled valence bond and thus provide vacant energy states into which electrons in the valence state can move. The movement of electrons is an electric field is facilitated by gain of velocity and momentum as it moves towards the positive electrode.
This is due to added energy which therefore requires an occupied energy State at a higher level. Example of conductors are Cu, All, Fe, etc.
Metals with few electrons in their valence make excellent conductors of electricity.
Forms of conductor are wires, cables and bus-bars (rods, tube etc)
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