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Science Fact of the Day September 3, 2009

Posted by spatialrift47 in SFoTD.
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A semiconductor is a material whose electrical conductivity can be altered by an external field, like a very jealous farmer. Further, much like doping people makes them more amenable to suggestion, doping semiconductors (by adding scattered atoms of another substance) can make them more conductive.

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