Resistors: Poor or semi conductors?
I'm stumped, what is the best word to describe what a resistor is made of?
In my understanding a 'Poor Conductor' (Not a rail-road joke from my project) is an insulator. In the +Mega Ohm range. While a semi conductor would just not pass as much voltage as copper.
Simply, I know that the pink stuff in the walls is a poor conductor of heat and the stuff in my electronics are semi-conductors. Would it be weird to say 'computers are filled with poor conductors.'?
Wikipidia says
Semiconductor: "This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 10^3 to 10^−8 siemens per centimeter."
What?
I hope its not too tricky,
Confused
-Arthur
I'm stumped, what is the best word to describe what a resistor is made of?
In my understanding a 'Poor Conductor' (Not a rail-road joke from my project) is an insulator. In the +Mega Ohm range. While a semi conductor would just not pass as much voltage as copper.
Simply, I know that the pink stuff in the walls is a poor conductor of heat and the stuff in my electronics are semi-conductors. Would it be weird to say 'computers are filled with poor conductors.'?
Wikipidia says
Semiconductor: "This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 10^3 to 10^−8 siemens per centimeter."
What?
I hope its not too tricky,
Confused
-Arthur