A material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity.
Electrically poorly conducting or non-conducting, non-metallic substance of which charge carriers are generally not free to move.
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Examples for "insulator"
Examples for "insulator"
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A block of wood is used as an insulator under the jar.
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The wood is used for posts, cross-ties, wagon hubs, and insulator pins.
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Which is to say, it's an insulator good enough for spacecraft.
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Those won't work because the plastic will act as an insulator.
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They race upward until they reach the insulator, which they cannot flow through.
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The skins are very valuable-thereis no better nonconductor of heat.
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The meringue acts as a nonconductor for the upper part.
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It's an absolute nonconductor of heat.
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Evidently they put small faith in the "three thousand miles of cool sea-water" as a nonconductor of warfare!
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All you have to do is wrap your core with a nonconductor, say nylon thread, and presto, nothing comes out.
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Flame facilitates the production of a current in the dielectric surrounding it.
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Microwave ablation uses dielectric hysteresis to produce direct volume heating of tissue.
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Perhaps it is because the dielectric losses in the liquid are smaller.
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We report also on the morphological and dielectric properties of these films.
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The arrangement of carbons and dielectric in this device is shown in Fig.
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A portion of the charge was absorbed by the dielectric itself.
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The same trend of layer-dependent dielectric constant is also revealed by first-principles calculations.
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The dielectric hysteresis with the temperature cycle reveals a remnant polarization.
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We also discuss contradictory values for the static dielectric properties reported in the literature.
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If the difference of potential between the terminals is raised, the dielectric breaks down.
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Epitaxial growth of single-crystal gadolinium oxide dielectric thin films on gallium arsenide is reported.
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A dielectric actuator that exhibits integral self-healing is still unprecedented.
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These circuital relations, when expressed analytically, are then for a dielectric medium of types
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Also, the overall dielectric response of investigated materials is strongly influenced by adsorbed water molecules.
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These surprising features are traced back quantitatively to the non-local dielectric nature of bulk water.
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To promote such a study, in this paper, two typical nonlocal dielectric models are revisited.
