A monolithic
carbon material without preferred crystallographic orientation of the microstructure.
Note:
Isotropic carbon can also be a
graphite material. The isotropy can be gross (bulk), macroscopic or microscopic, depending on the structural
level at which isotropy is obtained. This word is widely used today and its meaning
covers all the above levels. For example, the aerospace graphites have isotropy built
in by random grain orientation. Some
nuclear graphites are
isotropic at the crystalline (sub-grain) level.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 473
(Recommended terminology for the description of carbon as a solid (IUPAC Recommendations
1995))
on page 495
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.
