Why are liquids and gases normally insulators Share with your friends Share 0 Yash Choudhary answered this The molecules in liquid and gases are far apart and cannot conduct heat by conduction so liquid (except mercury) and gases are normally insulators 8 View Full Answer Animesh Gupta answered this because their molecules have a great distance from each other and gases particles are not bound to each other at all 4 Aishwary Srivastava answered this Because their molecules are free 0