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
The hair furnishes protection against extreme and sudden variations of temperature by reason of the fact that hairs are poor conductors of heat, and inclose between them a still layer of air, itself a nonconductor.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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
