How to Use conductivity in a Sentence

conductivity

noun

• Silica has a low thermal conductivity, so is regularly used in these types of firebricks.
  — New Atlas, 5 Aug. 2024
• The edge of the graphene could now act as a gate to control the conductivity of the semiconductor.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2022
• For charge to move from the source to the drain, a voltage is applied to the gate, changing the electric field and the conductivity of the silicon.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2023
• The conductivity and weight of the wire are in perfect balance.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
• When the tube was stretched ever so slightly, the conductivity of the emulsion changed.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 22 Feb. 2018
• The system in place at Fairholm measures conductivity of the milk, pounds per minute flow rate, and volume per quarter.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• Hemp string was attached to the bottom of the kite to provide conductivity and attached to a Leyden jar by a thin metal wire.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 May 2023
• According to de Santana, the species' stronger voltage may be an adaption to the poor conductivity of the water.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
• Keep track of the pH and electrical conductivity (EC) of the water daily.
  — Daniel Kluko, Popular Mechanics, 13 Feb. 2017
• The study also measured the quality of those frozen and fresh fish, based on the conductivity of cell structure, and found that the overall score of the frozen fish was at least three times higher than the fresh fish.
  — Bonnie S. Benwick, charlotteobserver, 3 July 2018
• Place a chunk of ice in the press, drop down the lid, and the all-copper unit will melt and mold the ice within 30 seconds thanks to both extreme conductivity and gravity running its course.
  — Kate Dingwall, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• Its electrical conductivity turned out to be just shy of that of stainless steel.
  — W. Wayt Gibbs, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2019
• Liquid metal has been kicking around on the PC for more than a decade, but the compound’s conductivity (which can be bad in a computer) has scared some off.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 14 May 2019
• Because of graphene’s high conductivity, the screens could be more responsive and use far less power.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Dec. 2017
• Each chip was then etched with acid and cooked in a furnace at about 1,000 degrees Celsius to bake in phosphorus atoms to adjust its conductivity.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022
• These were placed in a diamond anvil along with some platinum electrodes to test their conductivity.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2020
• Like the rest of the line, it is produced in the United States and made of five-ply metal: aluminum for conductivity and stainless steel for practicality.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• The full-palm conductivity allowed me to text or snap photos without exposing my hands to snow.
  — Leslie Hsu Oh, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2018
• The thermal conductivity of massive salt is about five times that of crystalline rocks, meaning the thermal loading can be much higher.
  — James Conca, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• The big thing is going from a liquid electrolyte to a solid electrolyte; that gives you better conductivity.
  — Tom Krisher, Star Tribune, 5 May 2021
• For the first time, researchers have measured the thermal conductivity—the rate at which heat is conducted—inside human cells.
  — Alla Katsnelson, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2021
• Semiconductors are somewhere in the middle of the conductivity spectrum, hence the name.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2022
• This changes the electrical properties of the atom and, in doing so, changes the conductivity of the material in general.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2022
• Possible fixes for the issue include using thin copper shims to close the gap between the CPU and the heatsink, as well as placing a thermal pad on top of the Air's heatsink to improve conductivity.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 22 July 2022
• But where a thin layer of thermal paste can fill in tiny gaps and improve conductivity and heat transfer, too much thermal paste leads to a much less efficient transfer of heat.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 22 July 2022
• This is consistent with the idea of having a larger conductivity propped fracture area.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• And the workhorse electrical conductor, the kind of perfect blend of conductivity and abundance and cost to extract is copper.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Sep. 2023
• The silver lines are there because the conductivity is quite poor, funny enough, in these materials.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
• The dissolved salt ions increase the conductivity of the water, declining the flow of electricity.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2023
• The fluid has 1/8th the electrical conductivity of air and is roughly the viscosity of cooking oil, Martinez says.
  — Charles Q. Choi, IEEE Spectrum, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024