carbon fibre

British  

noun

1. a black silky thread of pure carbon made by heating and stretching textile fibres and used because of its lightness and strength at high temperatures for reinforcing resins, ceramics, and metals, esp in turbine blades and for fishing rods

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Example Sentences

Modern rotors are even more efficient than the ones on Buckau in 1925 because they are made with lighter composite materials such as carbon fibre.

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But Edwards thinks the carbon fibre plates in today's running shoes may not actually be helping jumpers in contrast to the running events where records have continued to be broken.

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The plan was to build its hull - the part where the passengers would sit - out of carbon fibre.

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He saw visible gaps in the material, areas where the layers of carbon fibre were coming apart - known as delamination.

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The carbon fibre hull had titanium domes fitted on each end, but he said the metal had been machined incorrectly.

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