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Definition of Nonconductors
1. nonconductor [n] - See also: nonconductor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonconductors
Literary usage of Nonconductors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Physics: An Elementary Text-book for Colleges by Henry Crew (1919)
"CONDUCTORS AND nonconductors 334. A second great discovery in electrostatics was
made by Stephen Gray in London (d. 1736). He found that when a glass rod is ..."
2. A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts by Thomas Young (1845)
"... particularly in the properties of charged substances, which depend on the
resistance opposed by nonconductors to the ready transmission of the fluid. ..."
3. Elements of Electricity and Electro-chemistry. by George John Singer (1814)
"nonconductors are also sometimes called electrics, and occasionally insulators ;
but the latter term is only applicable to he most perfect of them. ..."
4. The Poetical Works of Erasmus Darwin ...: Containing the Botanic Garden, in by Erasmus Darwin (1806)
"... accumulated by contact of conductors with nonconductors, by vicinity of the
two ethers, by heat, and by decom~ ..."
5. First Year Science by William Henry Snyder (1914)
"Substances like copper that conduct electricity are called conductors, and those
substances like silk which will not conduct it, nonconductors. ..."
6. Hand-books of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy by Dionysius Lardner, George Carey Foster (1874)
"Conductors and nonconductors.—Bodies differ from each other in a striking manner
in the freedom with which the electric fluid moves upon them. ..."
7. Elements of Natural Philosophy: Embracing the General Principles of by Leonard Dunnell Gale (1838)
"Any bpdy is said to be insulated when placed in such a situation as to be surrounded
by nonconductors. Thus, the metallic bar in the experiment last ..."
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