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Pure silicon contains approximately 1.0  10¹⁶ free electrons per cubic meter.a) Referring to the table above, calculate the mean free time ? for silicon at room temperature.
1 s

(b) Your answer in part (a) is much greater than the mean free time for copper. Why, then, does pure silicon have such a high resistivity compared to copper?