nonconductor
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Mica, which laymen know as isinglass, is mainly used in peacetime as a nonconductor for electrical equipment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through this spark-charged atmosphere, Lem Lemnitzer moved like a nonconductor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Where all the films are removed, the remaining glass is a nonconductor.
From Time Magazine Archive
They took a dry stick because it was a nonconductor of electricity, you know, and rolled the man over to one side, so he was out of reach of the wires.
From Walter and the Wireless by William F. (William Frederick) Stecher
The skins are very valuable—there is no better nonconductor of heat.
From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
