nonconducting
- a word derived from nonconductor.
Example Sentences
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The Josephson junction is structured like a sandwich, consisting of a layer of nonconducting material squeezed between two layers of superconducting metal.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2024
The mounting pressure within stars and planets can cause metals to become nonconducting insulators.
From Science Daily • Dec. 29, 2023
These have nonconducting cases, such as power tools with impact resistant plastic cases, and are called doubly insulated.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Because it can be either electrically conducting or nonconducting, depending on the impurities added to it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Between them lay a long brown table, stained and corroded by strong acids, and littered with giant carboys, Faure's accumulators, voltaic piles, coils of wire, and great blocks of nonconducting porcelain.
From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by Doyle, A. Conan