graphite

«graphite» in Mova's school dictionary: a soft, dark grey form of carbon that leaves marks on paper — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (graphite — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Graphite is a soft, dark grey form of carbon that leaves marks on paper. tree →

2) Graphite is the «lead» in pencils, mixed with clay. tree →

3) Graphite is also used in batteries, as a lubricant and in sports gear like tennis rackets. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, graphite and diamond are both pure carbon but with atoms arranged differently: graphite is soft and slippery, diamond is very hard. Graphite conducts electricity, unusual for a non-metal. Thin layers of graphite are called graphene.

examples

• The «lead» in your pencil is really graphite. tree →
• Graphite and diamond are both made of carbon. tree →
• Graphite feels slippery because its layers slide. tree →
• A circuit with a graphite line can light a small bulb. tree →
• His tennis racket is made with graphite. tree →
• Use a soft graphite pencil for shading. tree →

note

Uncountable. Pencils never contained the poisonous metal lead; that is a myth from old times when people thought graphite was lead. «HB», «2B» tell how soft the graphite is.

In the corpora

• Pencil "lead" is graphite, a kind of carbon, mixed with clay; it contains no lead metal.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «graphite» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.