Zinc is the best nonconductor of heat that I know of. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
For he knew, as true men did not, that water, flowing water, was a nonconductor of distorts and illusions. From Wordnik.com. [Merlin's Mirror]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
The meringue acts as a nonconductor for the upper part. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings Together with Refreshments for all Social Affairs] Reference
She had said more to Miss Nugent, but Mary was a nonconductor. From Wordnik.com. [Nuttie's Father] Reference
The skins are very valuable -- there is no better nonconductor of heat. From Wordnik.com. [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference
With an interposed nonconductor none of the chemical power becomes transferable. From Wordnik.com. [Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1] Reference
All you have to do is wrap your core with a nonconductor, say nylon thread, and presto, nothing comes out. From Wordnik.com. [Sense from Thought Divide] Reference
Paper can be so treated that it will either conduct electricity or become a nonconductor, as may be desired. From Wordnik.com. [Makers of Many Things] Reference
Evidently they put small faith in the "three thousand miles of cool sea-water" as a nonconductor of warfare!. From Wordnik.com. [The World Decision] Reference
A titanic shell of eight-inch cosmium, a space, with braces of the same nonconductor of heat, cosmium, and a two inch inner hull. From Wordnik.com. [Invaders from the Infinite] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Walter and the Wireless] Reference
They took a dry stick because it was a nonconductor of electricity, you know, and rolled the man over to one side, so he was out of reach of the wires. From Wordnik.com. [Walter and the Wireless] Reference
It is a remarkably good nonconductor of electricity, and therefore it has been generally used to protect ocean cables, though recently rubber has been taking its place. From Wordnik.com. [Makers of Many Things] Reference
But selfishness marred the divine plan, and Israel became a nonconductor, and the privileges selfishly kept became corrupt; as the miser's corn stored in his barns in famine breeds weevils. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
(Webster: the property of an electric nonconductor that permits the storage of energy as a result of the separation of a charge that …. well look it up, if learning new words fascinates you … this writer had to). From Wordnik.com. [Geek.com] Reference
But the two electric ethers are condensed by being brought into vicinity with each other with a nonconductor between them; and thus explode violently, as soon as they communicate, either by rupturing the interposed nonconductor, or by a metallic communication. From Wordnik.com. [Note XII] Reference
But the two electric ethers are condensed by being brought into vicinity with each other with a nonconductor between them; and thus explode, violently as soon as they communicate, either by rupturing the interposed nonconductor, or by a metallic communication. From Wordnik.com. [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference
French army was holding the invader in Titan grip, stole cautiously into the Bay of Biscay at nightfall to escape prowling submarines, and began to roll in the Atlantic surges, part of those "three thousand miles of cool sea-water" on which our President so complacently relies as a nonconductor of warfare. From Wordnik.com. [The World Decision] Reference
Academy of France had been testing the properties of heat, and they came to the conclusion that it was a nonconductor or something like that, and of course its influence must necessarily be deadly in nervous organizations with excitable temperaments, especially where there is any tendency toward rheumatic affections. From Wordnik.com. [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference
He is a resolute nonconductor of electricity. From Wordnik.com. [A Beautiful Mind] Reference
3. nonconductor. From Wordnik.com. [Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois] Reference
"It's an absolute nonconductor of heat. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Rocked the Earth] Reference
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