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Isn't heating insulator enough for sufficient electrons to escape valence band and conduct electricity?
Diamond has about 5.5eV of energy gap, So If I heat diamond it will get atleast 1J energy which is enough to excite about 10^18 electrons, But Diamond still not conduct electricity, Why?
