Direction: To determine whether an object is a conductor or an insulator, you can build a simple circuit with a battery, light bulb, and three pieces of wire.
Q. Touch the free ends of the wire to the object you are testing. If the light bulb lights up, the object is a___________ . If it does not, then the object is an_______________ .
Which part of the bulb is an insulator?
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