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Is a poor conductor of heat?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 4/29/2023

Most metals are good conductors of heat, but lead and stainless steel are exceptions.

Air is a poor conductor of heat as are fibrous or layered materials. Cloth made from cotton or asbestos or sisal would be poor conductors. Mica would be an example of a layered material that is poor. In most thermal insulators, all you are buying is still air, because still air is (almost) the poorest conductor of heat among the simple materials. Hence the construction of most thermal insulators.

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