Sentences with phrase «poor electrical conductivity»

Due to corrosion or being attached to the painted engine case, the battery ground connection may have poor electrical conductivity.

Lead has a dull luster and is a dense, ductile, very soft, highly malleable, bluish - white metal that has poor electrical conductivity.

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However, their application has been hindered by inherently poor electrical and thermal conductivities.

Less than two years ago, Kanatzidis and his team, with postdoctoral fellow Lidong Zhao as protagonist, identified tin selenide as a surprisingly good thermoelectric material; it is a poor conductor of heat (much like wood)-- a desirable property for a thermoelectric — while maintaining good electrical conductivity.

Pure water with no exogenous ions in it is a very poor electrical conductor (and even, in fact, functions as an insulator), but because water is such an excellent solvent, it always has impurities in it and these impurities, even in «deionized» water in laboratories, are what creates the electrical conductivity.