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

The fuselages are double-walled like a thermos bottle, with nonconducting material between the walls.

From Time Magazine Archive

"If we could surround an electrified body with a nonconducting substance," said Professor Musschenbroek, "we could imprison it; we could accumulate and store it."

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