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: a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors
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: a composite material in which carbon fibers are the reinforcing material
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It’s also infused with cooling materials like heat-conducting graphite and gel.
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Jasmine Seales, SELF, 24 June 2024
The United States will also need strategic stockpiles of the building blocks of clean energy, working with its allies to amass critical minerals such as lithium, graphite, rare earths, and nickel.
—Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2023
Sophie Neiman The militants – loosely affiliated with ISIS – were angry at having watched Mozambique’s government fail to develop the region for decades, even as privileged locals and foreigners grew rich extracting its rubies, graphite, gold, and timber.
—Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
Under the final rule, however, small amounts of graphite and other minerals used in batteries would be exempt from the restriction until 2027, because their country of origin is nearly impossible to trace, officials said.
—Tom Krisher, Fortune, 3 May 2024
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Jasmine Seales, SELF, 24 June 2024
The United States will also need strategic stockpiles of the building blocks of clean energy, working with its allies to amass critical minerals such as lithium, graphite, rare earths, and nickel.
—Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2023
Sophie Neiman The militants – loosely affiliated with ISIS – were angry at having watched Mozambique’s government fail to develop the region for decades, even as privileged locals and foreigners grew rich extracting its rubies, graphite, gold, and timber.
—Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
Under the final rule, however, small amounts of graphite and other minerals used in batteries would be exempt from the restriction until 2027, because their country of origin is nearly impossible to trace, officials said.
—Tom Krisher, Fortune, 3 May 2024
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graphite
noun
graph·ite
ˈgraf-ˌīt 
: a soft shiny black carbon that is used in making lead pencils and as a dry lubricant
Medical Definition
graphite
noun
graph·ite
ˈgraf-ˌīt
: carbon of a soft black lustrous form that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors
called also plumbago
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