Crossword-Solution: NONCONDUCTOR
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| Nonconductor | n. | A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity. |
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| a substance that conducts heat, electricity, or sound only in very small degree | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
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Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with NONCONDUCTOR (5)
Well, I saw that the 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.
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.
The steamer slipped down the Gironde between green vineyards, past peaceful villages, a whole universe distant from that grim, gray trench-land where the 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.
Evidently they put small faith in the "three thousand miles of cool sea-water" as a nonconductor of warfare! So here was another aspect of the war--the possible dangers to us, without a friend in the world, as every one agreed.
The use of electricity for this purpose is made possible by the fact that comparatively dry cotton is a nonconductor of electricity.