carbon fibre

British

noun

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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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.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2025

The documentary also reveals the carbon fibre used to build the submersible started to break apart a year before the fatal dive.

From BBC • May 22, 2025

His carbon fibre creation, known as VX4, has eight propellers and looks like a giant drone, but what's crucial is that it doesn’t use fuel.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

It showed areas where the carbon fibre layers had separated - a known problem called delamination - as well as wrinkles, waviness and voids within its structure.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024

The search for the carbon fibre had cost about a hundred thousand dollars.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth

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