"Graphite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was nothing to be seen of the blazing fire which illuminated the dark hollow through the windows, in one corner of the room was a simple cylinder shaped iron furnace which radiated a burning heat, on the top of which stood a round graphite crucible covered in at the top and provided ...
— The Poor Plutocrats • Maurus Jokai
... horizontal plane. The electric lamp was combined in such a way as to give its most powerful light. Indeed, it was produced in vacuo, which insured both its steadiness and its intensity. This vacuum economised the graphite points between which the luminous arc was developed—an important point of economy for Captain Nemo, who could not easily have replaced them; and under these conditions their waste was imperceptible. When the ...
— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne
... electric power, chemicals; mining (coal, iron ore, magnesite, graphite, copper, zinc, lead, and precious metals), metallurgy; ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... bearings. Use flaky graphite and kerosene oil. Apply this as soon as there is any indication of ...
— Practical Mechanics for Boys • J. S. Zerbe
... form of rhizocarps—plants allied to Marsilea and Azolla,—and a very little higher, ferns, lycopods, and even conifers appear. We have indications, however, of a still more ancient vegetation, in the carbonaceous shales and thick beds of graphite far down in the Middle Laurentian, since there is no other known agency than the vegetable cell by means of which carbon can be extracted from the atmosphere and fixed in the solid state. These great beds of graphite, ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace |
