A flame will not pass through a wire gauze because the metal, being a good conductor of heat, takes away so much heat from the flame that the gases are cooled below the kindling temperature.
It is a good conductor of heat and electricity, though not so good as copper for a given cross section of wire.
Gold is a very heavy bright yellow metal, exceedingly malleable and ductile, and a good conductor of electricity.
It melts in the oxyhydrogen blowpipe and in the electric furnace; it is harder than gold and is a good conductor of electricity.
When inside buildings, persons struck are usually near an open door or window through which the lightning enters, and they are more exposed to danger from this source if there be some metal object or good conductor in the vicinity.
If the clothing be wet it will act as a good conductor, as will also any metallic object about the person.
Air is not a good conductor of lines of force; and the magnet has to do work to overcome the resistance of the air, when the armature is removed, in order to complete the magnetic circuit.
Dry tissue-paper is not a good conductor; you have seen (Exp.
Carbon is a good conductor; it may be quickly charged and discharged.
Dry silk is an insulator, while wet silk is a good conductorof static electricity.
The lightning will not leave the rod (a good conductor) to pass into the wall (a bad conductor) through those staples.
The metallic properties of hydrogen are also evinced in the fact that it is a good conductor of heat, which is not the case with other gases (Magnus).
In virtue of its density such coke becomes a good conductor of the galvanic current and approaches graphite.
In order to overcome this inconvenience, the potassium chlorate is crushed and mixed with a powder of a substance which is infusible, incapable of combining with the oxygen evolved, and is a good conductor of heat.
What happens when you put a good conductor in place of this resistance if the electricity can get from one wire to the other without passing through this resistance?
Anything like iron, that lets the heat travel through it quickly, is called a good conductor of heat.
Anything that carries, or conducts, electricity well is called a good conductor.
Because metal, being a good conductor, readily delivers heat to the hand; but earthenware, being an indifferent conductor, parts with the heat slowly.
The number of living bodies increases the conducting power of the animal fluids: and 2ndly--The vapour arising from a herd is also a good conductor.
Because running water is a good conductor; and lightning always takes in its course the best conductors.
Because a pin (being a good conductor), carries away the heat of the flame from the wick, and prevents the combustion of the tallow.
The lightning will not leave the rod (a good conductor) through those staples.
But a China or stone teapot, being in some degree of the nature of glass, which is not a good conductor of heat, may have a handle of the same stuff.
But a china or stone tea-pot being in some degree of the nature of glass, which is not a good conductor of heat, may have a handle of the same stuff.
And water, though naturally a good conductor, will not conduct well, when frozen into ice by a common degree of cold; not at all, where the cold is extreme.
The earth in temperate and warm climates is generally fit to receive it, being a good conductor.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good conductor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
