{"id":756,"date":"2010-04-17T22:31:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T09:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=756"},"modified":"2010-04-17T22:31:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T09:31:58","slug":"insulators-and-conductors-electrical-and-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Insulators and Conductors: Electrical and heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Insulators and Conductors: Electrical and heat<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Metals <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">conduct<\/span><\/strong> electricity. (Allow electricity to pass through them)<\/li>\n<li>Plastic is an electrical <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">insulator. <\/span><\/strong>(Does not allow electricity to pass through)<\/li>\n<li>Some metals are <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">magnetic<\/span><\/strong> (See magnetism)<\/li>\n<li>Metals are <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">malleable<\/span><\/strong>, they can be molded into shape.<\/li>\n<li>As well as electrical conductors and insulators, there are thermal conductors and insulators. When we use a saucepan we don\u2019t want to burn our hands on them so we make the handles out of materials that won\u2019t get hot so quickly like wood or plastic.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Thermal Insulators<\/span><\/strong> don\u2019t allow heat to pass through them easily.\u00a0 We want the food in the saucepan to get hot quickly so we make the saucepan out of metal, which is a good conductor of heat, it allows heat to pass through it easily.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-upholsterer.co.uk\/images\/foam.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Thermal conductors<\/span><\/strong>, allow heat to pass through them quickly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insulators and Conductors: Electrical and heat Metals conduct electricity. (Allow electricity to pass through them) Plastic is an electrical insulator. (Does not allow electricity to pass through) Some metals are magnetic (See magnetism) Metals are malleable, they can be molded into shape. As well as electrical conductors and insulators, there are thermal conductors and insulators. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Insulators and Conductors: Electrical and heat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Insulators and Conductors: Electrical and heat - science4all","description":"Insulators and Conductors: Electrical and heat Metals conduct electricity. (Allow electricity to pass through them) Plastic is an electrical insulator. (Does no"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6328,6306],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year-6-8-science","category-year10-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}