How come some things conduct electricity and others don't?

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How well something conducts electricity depends on its charge and how freely the electrons can move in it, for example, electricity will typically ignore humans in order to flow to a metal because metal is a much better conductor due to the fact that electrons in metal are much less bound to their atoms than that of humans.
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