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(a) Whose resistivity increases more wit...

(a) Whose resistivity increases more with temperature : of an alloy or of its constituent metals ?
(b) Name a material whose resistivity becomes zero at a particular temperature ?

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(a) Constituent metals
(b) Mercury `(at 4.2 K)`.
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