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Nonconducting

adjective
1.
Not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound.  Synonyms: non-conducting, nonconductive.






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"Nonconducting" Quotes from Famous Books



... by the use of nonconducting plaster applied to the flue-plate and to the sides of the corner-flues, so that the heat is prevented from radiating in any direction except toward the oven. The doors, sides, and bottom of the stove are lined ...
— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

... proportions are prepared, and their interstices are filled with granules or filaments of lead, by preference chemically pure. These plates are then submitted to pressure, and placed together, with strips of nonconducting material interposed between them, in a suitable vessel containing a bath of acidulated water. The plates being connected with wires from an electric generator are brought for a while under the action of the current, to peroxidize and reduce the whole of the finely divided ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various

... lava issues from the side of a volcano or overflows from the summit, it flows away in a glowing stream resembling molten iron drawn white-hot from an iron furnace. The surface of the stream soon cools and blackens, and the hard crust of nonconducting rock may grow thick and firm enough to form a tunnel, within which the fluid lava may flow far before it loses its heat to any marked degree. Such tunnels may at last be left as caves by the draining away of the lava, and are ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton



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