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
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
They have in them two pieces of tinfoil separated by glass, which is a nonconductor of electric currents, and various other acids and minerals.
From Walter and the Wireless by Stecher, William F. (William Frederick)
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