2. Verb. To coat with graphite. ¹
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Definition of Graphitize
1. [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graphitize
Literary usage of Graphitize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"The influence of temperature and of carbon content jointly is shown by the increase
of the tendency to graphitize with increasing carbon content. ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1920)
"0.9 per cent, carbon and 1.7 per cent, carbon, may graphitize better at low
temperatures, when they fall to the right of SE, than at higher temperature, ..."
3. Transactions by American Institute of Mining Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME. (1914)
"371 Professor Sauveur speaks of the freedom of steel from graphite; that is to
say, the cementite of steel does not readily graphitize. ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1922)
"... will graphitize with great ease, is permissible in cases only where neither
strength nor ductility is a factor. Such a composition as was selected by ..."
5. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1913)
"Chill means failure to graphitize the part chilled. Abnormally great chill means
restric graphitization, deficient chill means excessive ..."
6. The Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel by Albert Sauveur (1918)
"It is, of course, evident that if some pro-eutectoid cementite has escaped
graphitization none of the eutectoid cementite will graphitize, since the ..."
7. The Electric Furnace: Its Construction, Operation and Uses by Alfred Stansfield (1914)
"... and if the heat were sufficient to graphitize the coke, the resistance would
fall still further, the resistance of the heated graphite being only about ..."
8. Review of American Chemical Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Arthur Amos Noyes, William Albert Noyes (1903)
"... material adapted to form a carbide as iron oxide, and heating to a high
temperature so as to volatilize the iron oxide and graphitize the carbon. ..."