1157Every Day ScienceMedium
Charge carriers in a metal are electrons rather than protons because electrons are?
ALoosely bound
BAll of the above
CSmaller
DNegative
Correct answer
A. Loosely bound
Explanation
The electrons can be removed from an atom with much lower energy as compared to a proton. In fact, according to the electron-sea model of metals, a metal consists of a large number of free electrons that are not bonded to any particular atom but are free to move around the whole lattice.