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Graphite in sentence

12 examples of Graphite in a sentence

It's made of wood with some layers of paint an eraser and a core, which is made out of graphite, clay and water.
The story of the pencil starts with graphite.
Over in France, Nicolas-Jacques Conté figured out a method of grinding the graphite, mixing it with powdered clay and water to make a paste.
The softer the pencil, the more graphite it had in it, and the darker and smoother the line will be.
One of the materials that can do this is a remarkable material, carbon, that has changed its form in this incredibly beautiful reaction where graphite is blasted by a vapor, and when the vaporized carbon condenses, it condenses back into a different form: chickenwire rolled up.
OK, now, these are my sprinting legs, made of carbon graphite, like I said, and I've got to make sure I've got the right socket.
I am of course quoting from a famous essay by Leonard Read, the economist in the 1950s, called "I, Pencil" in which he wrote about how a pencil came to be made, and how nobody knows even how to make a pencil, because the people who assemble it don't know how to mine graphite, and they don't know how to fell trees and that kind of thing.
Although I don't recall much of the plot, and perhaps didn't even grasp it completely at the time, a few scenes are simply as etched in my brain: The scene where they struggle to repair the radio with graphite from a pencil.
It took thousands of people all over the world to make this pencil, Friedman said – to mine the graphite, cut the wood, assemble the components, and market the final product.
There are better sources of graphite in Mexico and South Korea.
Such a vacuum also reduced wear on the graphite points between which the luminous arc expanded.
Retort coal, that is to say, the hard graphite which is found in the retorts of gas manufactories, after the coal has been dehydrogenized, could have been obtained, but it would have been necessary to establish a special apparatus, involving great labor.