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Unread 03-26-2004, 05:47 PM   #33
Incoherent
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Originally Posted by redleader
Get your own textbook and you'll see that heat is conducted by electrons. Not surprisingly things that conduct electrons also tend to conduct electricity pretty well for some reason

Also, amorphous silicon is an insulator.
The implication being that any conductor of heat will also conduct electricity?
Not the case as I am sure you are aware.
Heat transfer in non-metallic solids can get pretty quantum mechanical, but suffice to say that movement of electrons is not the only way to shift heat. Although it is the most efficient way to do it.

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