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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

Most of the carbon in cast iron is in a form like graphite, which is almost pure carbon, and is therefore called graphitic carbon.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)

Attention was called to some German data, published by Dr. Percy in 1864, concerning an iron which before melting weighed—approximately—448¼ lb. per cubic foot, and contained—approximately—4 per cent. of carbon—3¼ being graphitic and ¾ combined.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 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 Dawson, Sir J. William

The difference is due to the fact that the carbon in steel is not in a graphitic form as well as because it is present in smaller quantities.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)