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in insulator does resistivity increase with increase with temperature how?

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If we increase the temperature of an insulator it will increase the number of free electron in the solid. So that will decrease the resistivity. But since the band gap in the insulator is very high, a small change of temperature does not make any noticable change in the resistivity in the insulator (unlike conductor or semiconductor).

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