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What Is a Better Insulator: Paper, Glass, Plastic, or Styrofoam?

Published Jun,13 2017 | By Dot Summer

The thermal conductivity of a material determines how good an insulator it is. The official definition of thermal conductivity is the quantity of heat transmitted through a unit thickness in a direction normal to a surface of unit area, due to a unit temperature gradient under steady state conditions.