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How do you know if a transistor is a PNP or an NPN?

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To know if a transistor is PNP or an NPN,the following should be verified:

For a PNP transistor, the base-collector junction is forward biased while the base-emitter junction is reversed biased.
For an NPN transistor, the base-emitter junction is forward biased while the base -collector junction is reversed biased.

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