Question

:Thermal conductivity is maximum for which substance ? A) Ice B )Silver C) Wood

Answer 1

Answer:

Silver is the correct answer

Answer 2

Thermal conductivity is maximum for silver.

To properly understand this answer, we have to know more about thermal conductivity.

Thermal conductivity :

• "Thermal conductivity is basically the ability of a material of conducting or transferring the heat."
• Most of the metals (eg. silver,iron etc.) have high thermal conductivity, and that's why they easily conduct heat.

Now, the given materials are : Ice, Silver and Wood.

Among the given materials, the only metal is silver. Now, we already know that the metals have high thermal conductivity as compared to other materials. So, being the only metal here, the silver will obviously have the maximum thermal conductivity in this case.

Hence, the maximum thermal conductivity is possessed by the silver. And, further elaboration on this has been done in the previous discussion.