nonconductor

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It is designed as a saturation campaign against "nonconductors" in Pittsburgh's business world, to be carried out through small task forces.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was placed in a recess in the solid rock, and all about were layers of asbestos and other substances that were nonconductors of heat.

From Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers, or, the Secret of Phantom Mountain by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

Hence the nonconductors of electricity are of two kinds; such as are combined with vitreous ether, as resin, and sulphur; and such as are combined with resinous ether, as glass, air, silk.

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus

The Mantis has outstripped humanity in her knowledge of thermic nonconductors or insulators.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard

The thick neutral hangings, and the dark blinds, and the heavy heap of bed-clothes, were all designed to hold in sleep, and act as nonconductors to the day and getting up.

From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles