A material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity.
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Examples for "insulation "
Examples for "insulation "
1 This provided means-tested grants for energy efficiency measures such as home insulation .
2 The government has extended its home insulation grant scheme to low-income owners.
3 Kiwibank and Westpac offer incentives for renewable energy systems and insulation costs.
4 The place needed sealing properly, insulation , install the right kind of ventilation.
5 The Cavan-based company develops and manufactures insulation products and systems for buildings.
1 For packing or insulating material a variety of substances may be used.
2 It makes a hugely effective insulating material for medium and high-voltage electrical installations.
3 They used magnesium oxide as an insulating material when required.
4 Like a hi-tech tatami, the mats cover your floor in a comfortable, insulating material .
5 Could an insulating material create a solid-state greenhouse effect warm enough to make Mars habitable?
6 To start a fire, the insulating material Styropor, from a kitchen fridge, is set alight.
7 For an insulating material , wood, when plunged in dilute acid, is preferred by the inventor.
8 He may conceive of an ideal insulating material to supersede glass, mica, paper, and enamel.
9 Adding noise insulating material , without ballooning the Project One's weight, is what engineers are now obsessing about.
10 We did not have the insulating material .
11 It consists of a trough lined with some insulating material , covered with two layers of ordinary window glass.
12 For more than forty years, they were widely used as an insulating material in electrical equipment, like capacitors and transformers.
13 Ordinarily these are of thin sheet metal (foil) interleaved with an insulating material , such as paper or mica.
14 The base may be made of wood or any other insulating material and should have four short legs on the bottom.
15 One of the advantages of going for a timber frame home is that it provides you with a superior insulating material .
16 His insulating material consisted of a combination of cotton yarn with asphaltum and beeswax; the whole was inclosed in a lead pipe.
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