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Why do you need both conductors and insulators in electrical appliances?
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To make electricity go where you want it to go, so it will do what you want it to do, you have to provide a pathway along which it can travel, made of conductors, and barriers around that pathway, made of insulators, to keep it from leaking out of the desired pathway.
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Are electrical conductors and insulators equally important for electricity?
Yes. You need both conductors and insulators to work with electricity. Conductors such as wires provide a path for electricity to move where it is needed and insulators prevent electricity from dissipating, from being where it is not supposed to be and where it can cause harm and damage.
How do both conductors and insulators help to use electricity?
conductors let electricity through, and insulators don't let it through, so they can help and control the path of the circuit
Why are metals good insulators?
They generally aren't. In contrast they are generally good conductors, both of heat and electricity.
One material that is used as a conductor and one that is used as an insulator?
A good insulator material is rubber and can block heat and electricity from almost anything. Glass is a good insulator too if you are trying to insulate electricity. Plastic is good as well. Most metals are OK conductors. Copper is very good, and Gold is the best, but it is heavy and expensive.
What are some objects that are both conductors and insulators?
A pencil can be both. It is an insulator if you use the wood side and a conductor if you connected to the metal side.
Which metal acts as an insulator?
Metals are conductors, not insulators. Both electrical and thermal conductors.
Are electrical conductors and insulators equally important for electricity?
Yes. You need both conductors and insulators to work with electricity. Conductors such as wires provide a path for electricity to move where it is needed and insulators prevent electricity from dissipating, from being where it is not supposed to be and where it can cause harm and damage.
Why are electrical and electronic appliances made of both conductors and non-conductors?
It obviously uses conductors to carry electricity through the system however non-conductive material is used for the reason of safety, organization of electrical components, and mechanical work.
How do both conductors and insulators help to use electricity?
conductors let electricity through, and insulators don't let it through, so they can help and control the path of the circuit
What are conductors and insulators of electricity?
Conductors are materials that pass electrical current easily, that is, with low resistance. Insulators are materials that do not pass electrical current easily, that is, they have high resistance. Conductors are ordinarily metals, and insulators are ordinarily nonmetals. Some examples of conductors are: Silver, Copper, Carbon, and Aluminum. Some examples of insulators are Glass, Nylon, and Wood (as well as Air and Vacuum). Conductivity is a function of the mobility of Electrons in the materials in question. Conductors have high mobility and conductors have low mobility. Semiconductors are materials that have some properties of both conductors and insulators. Germanium and Silicon are well known semiconductors. Superconductors are materials that pass electrical current with zero resistance. All known superconductors perform this function only at very low temperatures, far below those encountered in Earth environments (i.e. from around 77 degrees above absolute zero down, or, in other words, below about -320 degrees F).
Are keys insulators or conductors?
Keys are usually made from some metal or alloy. If they are, they are good conductors, both of heat and of electricity.
What is more important insulators or conductors?
Conductors and Insulators. In a conductor, electric current can flow freely, in an insulator it cannot. Metals such as copper typify conductors, while most non-metallic solids are said to be good insulators, having extremely high resistance to the flow of charge through them.
Boron nitride and aluminum oxide are both?
Both of these compounds are electrical insulators.
Are metal gold and copper good heat insulators?
No. Both metals are good conductors of heat.
Why are switches and electric sockets are made by using conductors?
They are made using both conductors and insulators: conductors where you do want the electricity to be able to flow and insulators where you want to prevent the electricity from flowing.If they were made using just one or the other, they could not perform their intended functions.
Which property of both carbon nad silicon are unexpected?
They are both good electrical conductors which is unusual as non-metals are normally not very good electrical conductors.
Why are metals good insulators?
They generally aren't. In contrast they are generally good conductors, both of heat and electricity.
