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Electrical insulator — Edexcel GCSE Physics Definition | GradeGen

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Electrical insulator

GCSE Physics · key term

Electrical insulator

Definition

A material in which electric charge cannot move freely, so charge transferred to its surface tends to remain there.

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Edexcel GCSE Physics · 1PH0

Specification 11.1P · Paper 2

Revise: Charging by Friction

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