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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graphite/#m1)

2) Graphite is the «lead» in pencils, mixed with clay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graphite/#m2)

3) Graphite is also used in batteries, as a lubricant and in sports gear like tennis rackets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graphite/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graphite/#x1)
- Graphite and diamond are both made of carbon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graphite/#x2)
- Graphite feels slippery because its layers slide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graphite/#x3)
- A circuit with a graphite line can light a small bulb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graphite/#x4)
- His tennis racket is made with graphite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graphite/#x5)
- Use a soft graphite pencil for shading. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graphite/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/1-what-is-everything-made-of/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «graphite» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graphite/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.