Chemistry 12th Edition

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0078021510
ISBN 13: 978-0-07802-151-0

Chapter 21 - Metallurgy and the Chemistry of Metals - Questions & Problems - Page 954: 21.66

Answer

Most Metals have a flickering appearance because they have a lot of free (i.e. delocalized) electrons that form a cloud of highly mobile negatively charged electrons on and beneath the smooth metal surface in the ideal case. we can think of these electrons as a negatively charged cloud in a uniform background of positive charge, forming a highly polarizable plasma and due to which they have flickering appearance.

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