Which of the following is a poor conductor of heat?. A. silver. B. aluminum. C. gold. D. copper. E. air. How can you tell the difference if its a poor conductore or not? o. o

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Dempsey

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2 April, 04:32

Which of the following is a poor conductor of heat?. A. silver. B. aluminum. C. gold. D. copper. E. air. How can you tell the difference if its a poor conductore or not? o. o

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Jaylin Fisher · Answer 1

The answer is E. air

Air is a poor conductor of heat. This can be determined through a property called thermal conductivity and has a unit of W/m. K. It is described as a quantity of heat through a unit thickness of material per temperature. The higher the thermal conductivity of a material, the more it is able to conduct heat. Most gases are poor conductors of heat.