Is a comb an insulator or a conductor?

Answer 1

Most plastic combs (like for combing your hair) would be classified as insulators.

All materials conduct, however, the amount of voltage (i.e. electrical pressure) required to make a material conduct generally cause us to classify materials as either:

1. Conductors (e.g. copper, gold)

2. Insulators (e.g. air, mica, glass, Teflon - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_insulation )

3. Semi-conductors (e.g. Silicon (Si) and germanium (Ge) )

Answer 2

Hair can be both a conductr and an insulator because whenu think about if you use a curlibg iron to curl your hair. heat is needed. To stay in the curls, hair must bg eboth a conductor and an isulator becasue otherwise hair would not be able t saty in this shape if heat was used to make this possible. The heat goesthrough the hair an dremains there for a while.

Answer 3

At high enough voltage, anything is a conductor-really. Hair is a conductor even at low impulse-- it is after all, a product of a very electrical being!