nonconductor

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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

Mica, which laymen know as isinglass, is mainly used in peacetime as a nonconductor for electrical equipment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Glass is a nonconductor of electricity, and water is a good conductor.

From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Pierce, H. Winthrop

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