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Heat flows from a high to a low. Therefore, heat stops moving when there is no gradient.

This fact forms the basis of an accurate technique used to measure the properties of a thermal insulator. Instead of trying to measure the heat flowing through a sample, It is sufficient to measure how much heat energy is added to one of the faces to minimise the heat flow. For it is easier to measure when a flow approaches zero, than to measure its actual value. This is known as the 'Guarded Hot Plate Method'.

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