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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carbon fibre

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

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

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.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

It was the first commercial plane to be built primarily of composites such as carbon fibre, rather than aluminium, in order to reduce weight.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025

Most of the hull was destroyed, but in the pieces that survived, the carbon fibre has split into layers and in some places had cracked.

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