A material consisting essentially of
graphitic carbon.
Note:
The use of the term
graphite as a short term for material consisting of
graphitic carbon is incorrect. The term
graphite can only be used in combination with other nouns or clarifying adjectives for special
types of
graphite materials (
graphite electrodes,
natural graphite and others). The use of the term
graphite without a noun or clarifying adjective should be restricted to the allotropic form
of the element carbon.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 473
(Recommended terminology for the description of carbon as a solid (IUPAC Recommendations
1995))
on page 492
Cite as:
IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic,
J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.
