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Definition of Graphite

1. Noun. Used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors.

Definition of Graphite

1. n. Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead.

Definition of Graphite

1. Noun. An allotrope of carbon consisting of planes of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal arrays with the planes stacked loosely that is used as a dry lubricant and in "lead" pencils. ¹

2. Noun. Short for graphite-reinforced plastic, a composite plastic made with graphite fibers noted for light weight strength and stiffness. ¹

3. Noun. A grey colour. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Graphite

1. a variety of carbon [n -S]

Medical Definition of Graphite

1. Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black colour and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Synonym: plumbago, black lead. Origin: Gr. To write: cf. F. Graphite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Graphite

Literary usage of Graphite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel by Albert Sauveur (1918)
"Iron-graphite Fusibility Curve. — It has already been mentioned that some writers claim that graphite instead of cementite may, and if time be given does, ..."

2. Political and Commercial Geology and the World's Mineral Resources by Josiah Edward Spurr (1920)
"Amorphous graphite is a trade term applied to non-crystalline or very fine-grained graphite of ... If crystalline graphite is produced in flakes or scales, ..."

3. Report by Pennsylvania (1912)
"there were occasional partings of graphite. Some of the rocks consist of ... Gneiss such as occurs in other graphite areas is also present in which the mass ..."

4. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1906)
"THE domestic production of natural graphite has never afforded much more than one-eighth of the consumption of that material in the United States, ..."

5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1876)
"Most of these and mines at Ticonderoga, NY On the top specimens of graphite come from their works of the square case is a graphite retort made for ..."

6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"THE determination of graphite in pig iron is often required. At furnace laboratories there is rarely time and equipment necessary to do this work by ..."

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