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  2. Insulator (electricity) - Wikipedia

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    Insulators used for high-voltage power transmission are made from glass, porcelain or composite polymer materials. Porcelain insulators are made from clay, sapphire (A Diamond Cubic Carbon), boron nitride, quartz or alumina and feldspar, and are covered with a smooth glaze to shed water. Insulators made from porcelain rich in alumina are used ...

  3. Mott insulator - Wikipedia

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    Mott insulators are a class of materials that are expected to conduct electricity according to conventional band theories, but turn out to be insulators (particularly at low temperatures). These insulators fail to be correctly described by band theories of solids due to their strong electron –electron interactions, which are not considered in ...

  4. Insulator (genetics) - Wikipedia

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    The cHS4 insulator acts as both a barrier to chromatin-mediated silencing via heterochromatin spreading, and blocks interactions between enhancers and promoters. A distinguishing characteristic of cHS4 is that it has a repetitive heterochromatic region on its 5' end. [5] The human β-globin locus homologue of cHS4 is HS5. Different from the ...

  5. Topological insulator - Wikipedia

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    A topological insulator is an insulator for the same reason a "trivial" (ordinary) insulator is: there exists an energy gap between the valence and conduction bands of the material. But in a topological insulator, these bands are, in an informal sense, "twisted", relative to a trivial insulator. [4]

  6. Thermal insulation - Wikipedia

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    Thermal insulation is the reduction of heat transfer (i.e., the transfer of thermal energy between objects of differing temperature) between objects in thermal contact or in range of radiative influence. Thermal insulation can be achieved with specially engineered methods or processes, as well as with suitable object shapes and materials.

  7. Insulator - Wikipedia

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    Insulator (electricity), a substance that resists electricity Pin insulator, a device that isolates a wire from a physical support such as a pin on a utility pole; Strain insulator, a device that is designed to work in mechanical tension to withstand the pull of a suspended electrical wire or cable; Mott insulator, a type of electrical insulator

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    A Maryland jury finds 'Real Housewives of Potomac' star Karen Huger guilty of driving under the influence and several other charges after she was arrested earlier this year.

  9. Dielectric strength - Wikipedia

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    In physics, the term dielectric strength has the following meanings: . for a pure electrically insulating material, the maximum electric field that the material can withstand under ideal conditions without undergoing electrical breakdown and becoming electrically conductive (i.e. without failure of its insulating properties).