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
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
It is a remarkably good nonconductor of electricity, and therefore it has been generally used to protect ocean cables, though recently rubber has been taking its place.
From Makers of Many Things by Eva March Tappan
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
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