nonconductor
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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
Where all the films are removed, the remaining glass is a nonconductor.
From Time Magazine Archive
On this point he remarks that the evil effects of the scale are due to the fact that it is relatively a nonconductor of heat.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various
A titanic shell of eight-inch cosmium, a space, with braces of the same nonconductor of heat, cosmium, and a two inch inner hull.
From Invaders from the Infinite by Campbell, John Wood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
