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Explain why the resistance of a semiconductor decreases with increase in temperature.

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With increase in temperature a greater number of bonds inside the semiconductor are broken. Hence a large number of electrons come out from those bonds. As a result the number of charge carriers increases and consequently the resistance decreases.
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