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How does the resistance of a conductor compare to that of an insulator?
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The resistance of a sample of a conducting substance is less than the
resistance of a physically identical sample of an insulating substance.
AnswerTo give you some idea of the difference between the resistance of insulators and conductors, a sample of mica (an insulator), just 25-mm long, has the same resistance as a copper conductor, having the same cross-sectional area, but measuring a staggering 14 290 000 000 000 000 000 kilometres long!To put this in perspective, the average distance from the Earth to the Sun is a mere 150 000 000 kilometres!
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