I don't want to short everything out

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actually di-electric means it is neautral to electricity, meaning that it can let electricity pass through it without a regard, ie air, technically What I needed was a conductor with a very high resistance which is known as an insulator

"A dielectric, or electrical insulator, is a substance that is highly resistant to electric current. Although a vacuum is also an excellent dielectric, the following discussion applies primarily to physical substances." -Wikipedia