Why do ions conduct electricity?

Answer 1

Ions are charged particles. They are atoms and molecules with "too many" or "too few" electrons.

The flow of electrons over a wire carries charge, but they way charge is carried in an ionic solution is by motion of ions. If you put a negatively charged thing in an ionic solution, positively charged ions will go towards it and negatively charged ions will go away from it. This is what makes up the current.

Answer 2

Why Do Ions Conduct Electricity

Answer 3

Explain Why ions Carries Electric charge?

Answer 4

Ions are charged particles ( negatively or positively charged) , they are able to conduct electricity because electricity is a flow of electrons (negatively charged)

Answer 5

ions form when atoms lose or gain an electron. When this occurs, they have positive or negative charges, which account for the electricity

Answer 6

Lancenigo di Villorba (TV), Italy

In electrolytic solutions, solvent (e.g. usually water) dissolve salts or other electrolytes (e.g. acids, bases) and maintains indipendent behaviour of ions obtained for electrolyte's dissociation.
Now, you dipp two metalic plate in this solution and you can connect them to external energy supply, e.g. electrical battery.
If you had also connected ("serie's feature connection") an amperometric instrument, you can see an electrical current flow across your solution. You had repeated argument of Arrhenius's Ph.D. (University of Stockholm) who won Chemistry's Nobel Prize.
As you know, metal's behaviour in electrical conduction is about electron's motion in one direction across metalic material.
Since you know electron are not free in solutions media, why that it happens?
Ions are mono- or poly-atomic aggregates which electrical charged, so they move themselves by electrical field you had imposed (metalic plates and connected battery).

I hope this helps you.

Answer 7

electricity is a flow of charged particles, for example electrons.

but ions are charged particles too, so a flow of ions can be measured as electricity.

Answer 8

because ions are charged, they create friction, the displacing and misplacing of electrons, adhering to the opposite-attract rule, thereby releasing electrical charges in their wake when faced with another ion...ions can't hep themselves, it's in their nature...a very sad state for ions, i'm afraid....BUT, a wonderful gain in our universe...without it, you and i might not be here.