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How do the electrical conductivity and resistivity of metallic conductors, semi-conductors, and super conductors vary with temperature ?

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With increase of temperature, electrical conductivity of semiconductors increases, that of metallic conductors and superconductors decreases. Electrical resistivity , being the reciprocal of conductivity, has the opposite behaviour.
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