NOUN
- a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity
How To Use nonconductor In A Sentence
- The thin wire runs parallel to and above a length of aluminum foil, with the two attached and held apart by a lightweight nonconductor such as balsa wood. MAKE Magazine
- A titanic shell of eight-inch cosmium, a space, with braces of the same nonconductor of heat, cosmium, and a two inch inner hull. Invaders from the Infinite
- Evidently they put small faith in the "three thousand miles of cool sea-water" as a nonconductor of warfare! The World Decision
- For he knew, as true men did not, that water, flowing water, was a nonconductor of distorts and illusions. Merlin's Mirror
- All you have to do is wrap your core with a nonconductor, say nylon thread, and presto, nothing comes out. Sense from Thought Divide
- Again, ice, like water, is almost a nonconductor of heat, and earth saturated with water and frozen, is like unto it, so that neither the warmth of the subsoil or surface-soil can be readily imparted to it. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles
- Zinc is the best nonconductor of heat that I know of. Doctor Jones' Picnic
- 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. Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882
- The use of electricity for this purpose is made possible by the fact that comparatively dry cotton is a nonconductor of electricity. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
- They have in them two pieces of tinfoil separated by glass, which is a nonconductor of electric currents, and various other acids and minerals. Walter and the Wireless