Sentences with phrase «work as an insulator»

What other materials can you think of that work as insulators?

It works as an insulator.

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Mikel Zubizarreta, a member of the UPV / EHU's IT 781 - 13 group, highlights the advantages of timber in building works: «Although it is not as tough as other materials used in structures, it is a better insulator, in other words, it is more energy - efficient and less dense so the structure weighs less.

Many of these candidates are completely hypothetical, but engineers are already beginning to shortlist those that are worth synthesizing and testing for specific applications by searching through their predicted properties — for example, how well they will work as a conductor or an insulator, whether they will act as a magnet, and how much heat and pressure they can withstand.

Previous work suggested that as the atmosphere warms and becomes moister, it becomes a better insulator, so the clouds themselves have a diminishing contribution to warming.

But since Lacis decided to dwell on a bizarre thermostat that works, historically, backwards through time, perhaps he was too distracted to consider the atmosphere's acting as an insulator.

A real insulator such as Styrofoam, works on the long wave radiation, the same as CO2 and water vapor.

Just for fun, after you have corrected your error, surround your house with air as an insulator, turn your external fire off half a day at a time, and tell me again how GHGs work.