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Sodium Iodide is held together by covelent bonds, therefore no "free" electrons exist which is what makes metals conductive.

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Not in its standard solid state.

Bu aluminum oxide could conduct electricity if molten

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Its doesn't have free or mobile electrons as a compound

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Aluminium oxide does not conducts electricity because its ions are not free to move / are held in fixed positions (in the lattice).

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