Why tubes of a boiler are covered with layer of asbestos?

Asbestos is bad conductor of heat

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Asbestos is good conductor of heat

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Neither A nor B

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Solution

The correct option is A Asbestos is bad conductor of heat
The tubes are covered with asbestos layer in order to prevent heat less by conduction.

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