Cydrome Leader wrote:

It's like a bucket brigade through the conductor, sort of like those
swinging ball desk toys from the 1980s. The electron coming "out" of your
wire isn't the same one going in. Materials that are good at doing this,
like metals are great conductors. Others like glass or plastic are bad at
letting current pass through them.


Conductive plastic is used as the shield for some cables. Like foil,
it needs a drain wire to be able to connect it to ground.


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