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What is graphite?

What is graphite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. 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.
  2. Short for graphite-reinforced plastic, a composite plastic made with graphite fibers noted for light weight strength and stiffness.
  3. A grey colour.
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The coke is heated in an oven that has no access to outside air to burn off most of the impurities, leaving a fairly pure form of graphite.
Carbon and irons with a greater carbon content will start freezing by throwing out kish graphite of large size.
An example of allotropy is carbon, which can exist as diamond, graphite, and amorphous carbon.
Other methods consist of superheating the molten metals in a separate furnace, whereby the graphite is greatly refined.
Scientists later demonstrated that fullerenes can be conveniently generated by setting up an electric arc between two graphite electrodes.
A scanning tunneling microscope image shows liquid crystal molecules aligned on a sheet of graphite.

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