Question

Can non-metal conduct electricity? If yes, how? If, no why?

Answer 1

Generally, metals are the conductors of electricity because they have the ability to lose an electron and the electrons are the main reason for the flow of electricity but non-metals are generally receivers of electrons so they don't have free electrons that's why they are the insulators.

But there is a non-metal Graphite which is the only non-metal that can conduct electricity.

Graphite: Graphite is a crystalline form of carbon that is weakly linked in a layered hexagonal structure in which carbon is attached only by three sides while one valence electron is free to move because carbon has four valencies.

Graphite is used in a pencil and as a lubricant in a piece of machinery.