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Inorganic Chemistry

Electricity and Magnetism

What is a band gap?

The band gap for a material is the difference in energy between the valence band and the conduction band. This number tells you how good of a conductor a material is. The smaller the band gap (or the less energy) it takes to promote an electron from the filled to the empty orbitals, the better the material can conduct electrons.



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