Does liquid hydrogen conduct electricity?
Q: A: I don’t think that it will (at least at ambient pressure). Liquid hydrogen should act as any other covalent liquid, and should be a poor conductor of electricity. Liquid hydrogen has a band gap of 15eV, too high to be a conductor, at ambient pressure (see link 1 for source).Solid hydrogen is not a metal unless it is compressed to very high pressures. It is thought to exist in Jupiter and Saturn for this reason, but has only been produced fleetingly in labs on Earth.
