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soft, electrical and heat insulator
soft, electrical and heat insulator
Plastic is made out of organic (carbon based) molecules which hold on to their electrons rather than contributing them to a common pool as metals do. Hence you do not get the kind of electron mobility needed for electrical conductivity.
An insulator is a material that does not conduct well, so an electrical insulator is a material that does not conduct electricity well. A metal is a bad electrical insulator as it has delocalised electrons, therefore conducts electricity, but most plastics and materials like rubber do not conduct electricity, so they are good electrical insulators. Hope that makes sense and helps? :3AnswerAn insulator is a material with insufficient free charge carriers to support conduction.
pure water is insulator.
It is an electrical insulator. Most stones are examples.
No. Diamond is a thermal conductor, but an electrical insulator.
Very low. It's used as an insulator.
The thermal conductivity of sodium chloride is 6,5 W/m.K at 25 0K.Electrically sodium chloride is an insulator.
The thermal conductivity of sodium chloride is 6,5 W/m.K at 25 0K.Electrically sodium chloride is an insulator.
it is a conductor but its electrical conductivity is only 28%as conducive as copper.
soft, electrical and heat insulator
Varies dramatically with dopant concentration. Pure silicon is almost an insulator.
Oxygen. Carbon as diamond is a good electrical insulator, (graphite is an electrical conductor), silicon is a semiconductor so has limited electrical conductivity and aluminium is a metal and a good electrical conductor.
soft, electrical and heat insulator
Glass is an insulator, as it DOES NOT conduct current. It is a material which has no free electrons available to flow as electrical current. Conductors, like copper or aluminum, have free electrons, or electrons in the outer shells of their atoms that are easily knocked loose. These electrons flow from negative to positive when an electrical potential (voltage) is applied across the material. We call the flow of electrons "current".
Plastic is made out of organic (carbon based) molecules which hold on to their electrons rather than contributing them to a common pool as metals do. Hence you do not get the kind of electron mobility needed for electrical conductivity.