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I was thinking about this and I think its neither. I looked up a Periodic Table and its outer shell configuration is similar to Si and Ge. Therefore why is Tin not a semiconductor? I think its because Tin does metallic bonding, whereas if it was covalent, Tin would be a group 4 semiconductor.

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