Glass, vis-à-vis electricity

Usage examples of insulator.

It is also proposed to test various kinds of insulation and insulators in this laboratory, and to determine the durability of such insulation in the presence of such corrosive gases and water as are found in mines.

The bioengineered bark, a better insulator than most commercial materials, was still on it, and it had been roofed over with a curving slab of more tree.

Doing a Houdini, I adjusted my head to try and get a good viewing angle, pressing it right up against the iron bars, the hat working as a perfect insulator for my head.

The light moved over power lines, insulators and transformers, paused at one charge of plastic explosive, then followed the wires to the timing device.

Stumbling over broken stone and broken metal, he came at last to a barrier of woven wire with sharp-spiked strands strung on insulators along the top, too tall and cruel for him to climb.

Then, suspecting as I had that at least one scout ship would return for a final round-up, they had investigated the properties, of the anthropometer and found out about the only insulator, berrillit blue.

The dark box was obviously the jacket, which was made of wood, with here and there a glass-covered inspection window, or a tube which entered from another gadget, or an insulator for a wire.

The new insulators can hold a gun magazine at one degree Kelvin for weeks, and carry enough fissionable pellets to give rapid fire, with the effect of a steady beam, for more than a minute.

Thankfully the black silicon covering his skin was an effective insulator, otherwise he would have been either roasted, frozen, or electrocuted long ago.

Without insulators, maximum signal distances are a few miles and only that in good weather.

Beneath blue halogen lamps, I saw huge metal tubs ten feet high, and fat ceramic insulators thick as a man’.

Beneath blue halogen lamps, I saw huge metal tubs ten feet high, and fat ceramic insulators thick as a mans leg.

And those insulators, though you can't see them, are commercial diamonds because of their useful heat conductivity.

Whereas before his ideas had been opposed on the grounds of space being a mathematically idealized insulator, now the criticism was that he couldn't be right because the space he described was assumed to be a perfect conductor.

I found some interesting things while I was doing all this: a home-made astrolabe I'd carved, a box containing the folded-flat parts for a scale model of the defences around Byzantium, the remains of my collection of telegraph-pole insulators, and some old jotters from when my father was teaching me French.