Unlike metals, semiconductors increase their conductivity as you heat them (up to a point). Suggest an explanation?
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Chemistry The Central Science
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Authors: Theodore Brown, Eugene LeMay, Bruce Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward
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