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Why to we prefer transistor over the vacuum tubes in the portable radio receivers ?

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This is because of two reasons :
(i) Transistor is compact and small in size than the vacuum tube.
(ii) Transistor can operate even at low voltage which can be supplied with two or three dry cells.
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