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The movement of heat may be considered as the movement of electromagnetic energy at a frequency a little below that of light. There are substances that are opaque to infrared, and of course, a mirror will reflect e-m energy at the appropriate frequencies.

So the answer is not all substances conduct heat, though the vast majority do so.

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