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high temperature in metals leads to decrease in conductivity while increase in Temperature conductivity in semiconductor increases, why?​

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The conductivity of metals decreases with increasing temperature because of thermal agitation of the conduction electrons, which impedes their movement in response to an electric field and therefore lowers the drift velocity.