What is "conductive"

Usage examples of "conductive".

On the more conductive side, there is the factor that the village farms will be better able to afford the new machines.

The Kaliningrad had two reactors, each cooled by highly conductive liquid sodium.

He'd worked all day in the foundry below, covering Jody and the vampire with the thin coat of conductive paint and putting them into the bronzing vats.

These resonant tunnelling computer chips are constructed not of silicone, not even of the newest hyperfast conductive alloys, indium phosphide and aluminium gallium arsenide.

The two chips -- the implant proper and the black box, both less than a millimetre wide -- sat at the back of the skull, sharing access to a fine web of conductive polymer threads which wrapped the brain, making billions of quasi-synaptic contacts with the visual and auditory cortex, and Wernicke's speech area in the temporal lobe.

Well, okay, for some specialty foods, like the egg rolls, the food was spiked on metal conductive toothpicks hooked to the bottom of the package.

Most detectors make use of about two microcuiies of americium-241, which is used to make the air in the detector's so-called ionization chamber electrically conductive.

Hardly, he felt, the most conductive setting to try to explain to her as she sat there, suddenly cool and defensive, that in a sort of out-of-body dream he had had a telepathic sense that the mental breakdown she had suffered had been connected with the fact that, appearances to the contrary nonwithstanding, the Earth had been demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, something which he alone on Earth knew anything about, having virtually witnessed it from a Vogon spaceship, and that furthermore both his body and soul ached for her unbearably and he needed to got to bed with her as soon as was humanly possible.

The ionosphere is electrically conductive, and radio amateurs and others in radio communication, have 'bounced' signals off of the ionosphere for decades in order to achieve longer distance communication around the planet that could not be possible because of the tendency of radio signals to propagate in line-of-sight (and the planet's a sphere).

It does have a rudimentary vascular system to transport nutrients for renewing itself, an arrangement of contractile tissues that enable it to move, and a network of conductive fibers that transmit electrical discharges in response to applied mechanical force.