Current Through A Silicon Rod

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What current flows through a 4.6-cm-diameter rod of pure silicon that is 20.4 \(\textrm{cm}\) long, when 15 \(\textrm{kV}\) is applied to it? (Such a rod may be used to make nuclear-particle detectors, for example.)

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Problem is from the OpenStax University Physics Volume 2 textbook, licensed under the CC-BY 4.0 license.