Why is boron a bad conductor?

Its considered a bad conductor because its resistivity is fairly high compared to good conductors like gold, silver, copper, aluminum. Metals have a lot of mobile electrons in their valence bands so conduct well. Carbon and boron are in the class known as semiconductors that don't have a lot of free electronics to conduct. read more

Its considered a bad conductor because its resistivity is fairly high compared to good conductors like gold, silver, copper, aluminum. Metals have a lot of mobile electrons in their valence bands so conduct well. Carbon and boron are in the class known as semiconductors that don't have a lot of free electronics to conduct. read more

Metals are good conductors of heat and electricity, nonmetals are poor conductors of heat and electricity At room temperature boron is a poor conductor of electricity but at higher temperatures it is considered to be a good conductor of electricity. read more