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- AGenerally,in conductors the valence and conducting bands overlap.
- BThe resistivity of a semiconductor increases with increase in temperature.
- CThe conductivity of a semiconductor increases with increase in temperature.
- DSubstances with an energy gap of the order of $10 \ eV$ are insulators.
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