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Go over need for measure of conductivity (6,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

energy gap

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'measure of conductivity' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'go over need' is the wordplay.
'go' becomes 'energy' (I've seen this before).
'over need' becomes 'gap' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'energy'+'gap'='ENERGY GAP'

'for' is the link.

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