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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A couple of minutes must pass before the accumulator vanes behind the hood re-energized the conductors and insulators.
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It could serve as a heat conductor or insulator , depending on how it was used.
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Materials that do not conduct heat well are called insulators. 61.
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Non-metals tend to be insulators although, as we have seen, graphite is a conductor of electricity.
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Still embedded high on a rock is a tangle of telephone wires and a ceramic insulator .
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The power station was in poor repair, and Smith set about installing new insulators and restoring good practice.
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The sand serves as natural insulator , and some of the more massive pieces take long to cool.
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Their advantages are: The frame members are good insulators, so condensation is not a problem.