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Explain why copper, though a good conductor of electricity, is a non-electrolyte.

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Copper metal, being a solid, has no mobile ions whereas an electrolyte should dissociated into oppositely charged ions to be able to conduct current. Hence copper is not an electrolyte, despite of being a good conductor of electricity.

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