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graphitic

  • a word derived from graphite.
    graphite
    noun
    a very common mineral, soft native carbon, occurring in black to dark-gray foliated masses, with metallic luster and greasy feel: used for pencil leads, as a lubricant, and for making crucibles and other refractories; plumbago; black lead.

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Scientists in Japan and Switzerland, meanwhile, found that lithium layered with graphitic carbon improved the anode.

From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

In Madagascar the graphite is mainly disseminated in a graphitic schist, though to some extent it is present in the form of veins and in gneiss.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

The soft portion of the same casting weighed 447¾ lb. per cubic foot, and contained 34.5 per cent. of carbon—31.5 being graphitic and 3.5 combined.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various

The presence of carbonaceous shale and graphitic schists as well as of the altered sedimentary iron ores has been taken as indicative of vegetable life.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

Still it is not impossible that some of the beds which are now graphitic gneisses may originally have been similar to the bituminous shales, coals, or underclays of the coal formation.

From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Sir J. William Dawson