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insulated wire

[′in·sə‚lād·əd ′wīr]
(electricity)
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Insulated wires and cables are covered or lined with a material that reduces or prevents the leakage, transfer, and passage of heat or electricity.
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The US runs a large trade deficit in insulated wire and cable, totaling over $2 billion in 2005.
Gore HSTF insulated wire can be used in all parts of the aircraft, from fuel probe cables to general purpose hook-up wires, due to the wide temperature performance (260[degrees]) and chemical inertness of the material.
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It was quickly improved upon by the American physicist Joseph Henry (1797-1878), who in 1829 wrapped insulated wire around an iron core.
Name of the wire (cable) part [[theta].sub.IS] [degrees]C 1 Tire (core), copper, uninsulated at stresses 250 less 20 N/[mm.sup.2] 2 Tire (core), aluminum, uninsulated at 200 stresses less 10 N/[mm.sup.2] 3 Cable and insulated wire with copper (aluminum) cores and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) 150 or rubber (R) insulation 4 Cable and insulated wire with copper 120 (aluminum) cores and polyethylene (PET) Insulated 5 Aluminum part of the steel-aluminum wires of 200 power lines Table 2 The values of long-term permissible temperature [[theta].sub.ll] for the main types of electrical wires (cables) [3] [[theta].sub.II] No.
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