nonconductor
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Where all the films are removed, the remaining glass is a nonconductor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through this spark-charged atmosphere, Lem Lemnitzer moved like a nonconductor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mica, which laymen know as isinglass, is mainly used in peacetime as a nonconductor for electrical equipment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Zinc is the best nonconductor of heat that I know of.
From Doctor Jones' Picnic by Chapman, S. E. (Samuel E.)
The use of electricity for this purpose is made possible by the fact that comparatively dry cotton is a nonconductor of electricity.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
