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You have drawn a model of metal and plastic showing how they transfer heat. According to your model, why is metal able to transfer heat energy more quickly than plastic molecules?
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You have drawn a model of metal and plastic showing how they transfer heat. According to your model, why is metal

able to transfer heat energy more quickly than plastic molecules?

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Step-by-step explanation:

Metal is good conductor of heat due to :

(A) Tightly packed atoms which transfer vibrations quickly to the next atoms.

(B) Free electrons near the heat source gets excited and transfer Kinetic Energy through collisions with atoms and other free electrons.

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