Can sands contribute or flow electricity?

Answer 1

no, because even silicon which is a semi-conductor and used in microchips when it is purified to 99.999% purity, is only a semi-conductor. silicon occurs in crystal form as silicon dioxide.
in its different forms it can either be a semi-conductor or an insulator.
sand isn't going to conduct electricity just because an element appears in it in the form of a compund bonded molecule. afterall, H20 conducts electicity, does sugar that also contains water do so in crystalline form? no!

wet sand will conduct electicity, but that is actually the water doing the conducting of the electrical current.
dry sand is an insulator just like any crystal.

now if you happen to walk into an environment that has sand made of 99.999% Si and a thunderstorm blows up, the lightning should scare you a little bit.

cement is made of sand, do you see it conducting electricity?

if you take dionized water, which doesn't conduct electicity well, and dump a little sand into it, it may add enough electolytes to improve he electical conductivity of the water, but dry sand on its own does not!

Answer 2

Sand, even though it consists of silicon, cannot transmit current in it's normal state, at normal voltages.....If applied very high voltages electrons from outermost orbit will gain enough energy for breakdown of atom in SI+ ion and free electron..(process called ionization)...during this stage it will transmit electricity....here i am referring to silicon only..if you are referring to sand, it is composite of silicon, as well as other metallic impurities, moisture etc....it can surely transmit electricity

Answer 3

As mentioned previously, sand is primarily made of silicon, which is a semi-conductor. Again, as mentioned previously, semiconductors form the basis of many electronic devices such as diodes, transistors, integrated circuits.

Answer 4

Sand is made of silicone and in its pure state it is the base for your transistors.