carbon fibre

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

Example Sentences

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.

Read more on BBC

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

Read more on BBC

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

Read more on BBC

A crack was later found in the sub's carbon fibre hull, and in 2020 that damaged hull was swapped out for a new one, in what became the second version of Titan.

Read more on BBC

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

Read more on BBC