Charge given inside a metal object not retain inside the metal. It comes out and distributed on the outer surface of metal. why?

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Solution

Since the excess charges can move freely in a metal, and since they repel one another they will move to positions where the distance between them is maximum, and until there is no electric field within the metal. These positions will be on the outer surface.

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