A
carbon material consisting of separated monolithic particles.
Note:
Distinctions should be made between coarse particulate carbon or
granular carbon
(larger than about
,
but smaller than about
in average size), fine particulate carbon or powder or flour (between
and
in average size) and
colloidal carbon
(below approximately
in size in at least one direction), e.g.
carbon blacks and
colloidal carbon.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 473
(Recommended terminology for the description of carbon as a solid (IUPAC Recommendations
1995))
on page 499
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.
