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4 unusual facts about graphite


John Kotelawala

Through careful management of their land holdings and plumbago mines she made her family prosperous.

MGM-134 Midgetman

The legacy of its lighter graphite-wound solid rocket motor technology lived on in the GEM side boosters used on the Delta rockets, and the Orion stages of the Pegasus air-launched rocket.

Orestes Cleveland

He moved to Jersey City, New Jersey in 1845 and became involved in the manufacturing of black lead, stove polish and pencils.

Sir Basil Peto, 1st Baronet

He travelled widely for the company supervising the mining and purchase of plumbago in the United States, Canada, India and Ceylon.


Belene Nuclear Power Plant

Concerns regarding the construction of the plant have mainly been felt in nearby Romania, with articles in the newspapers such as Cotidianul, România Liberă and Ziarul even going as far as comparing the project with Chernobyl despite a new generation of VVER reactors is to be used, and not the cheaper graphite-moderated RBMK series like Chernobyl's.

Dixon Ticonderoga Company

The company has its origins in the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company of New Jersey, an organization founded in 1827 by Joseph Dixon and his son based upon the Tantiusques graphite mine in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.

Ernst Weinschenk

He also conducted investigations on the origin of the sulfidic ore deposit at Silberberg in the Bavarian Forest, as well as the genesis of graphite deposits near Passau.

Guram Dolenjashvili

Many of his works are landscapes made in black and white, using a graphite pencil or etching with slightly surrealist shifting of reality still he is often considered a follower of traditions Russian realist landscapers of Ivan Shishkin and Yuly Klever.

Mandideep

The major industries here are Hindustan Electro Graphite (HEG), Procter & Gamble, Eicher tractors Ltd, Lupin laboratories, and many more national and international level company have their manufacturing units at Mandideep.

Mosler Automotive

A Photon variant is available which adds a Hewland transmission, thinwall subframes, BBS magnesium wheels, titanium springs, and carbon fiber seats and bodywork, reducing the car's mass to 1,980 lb (900 kg).

Nashoba Brook Pencil Factory Site

John Thoreau's brother-in-law, Charles Dunbar, discovered a deposit of graphite in Bristol, New Hampshire, in 1821.

Notebook of William Blake

The Gates of Paradise, 1825, object 9 Inscribed in graphite lower center: "7. One dies! Alas! the living and dead! One is slain! and one is fled! Blake's 'Key'."
Yale Center for British Art at Yale University in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Paul Mellon Collection

NuSTAR

The shells were then assembled, at the Nevis Laboratories of Columbia University, using graphite spacers machined to constrain the glass to the conical shape, and held together by epoxy.

Polly Thayer Starr

Increasingly aware of the fragility of her vision, she concentrated on lavish pastels of gladiolas with their bees and an increasingly abstract sequence of cyclamen flowers drawn in chalk on black paper with touches of color, as well as delicate series of graphite drawings based on the life cycle of the thistle.

Pradeep Rohatgi

The initial discovery of the synthesis of cast aluminum matrix composites including Al-graphite, Al-SiC, and Al-International Nickel Company in Suffern, New York.

Seathwaite Fell

Auntie Mabel and Pippin visit Seathwaite Fell in the second episode of the third series of Come Outside, as they learnt about how graphite was discovered and how pencils are made.

SGL Carbon

By opening further locations, e.g. the construction of the most state-of-the-art carbon and graphite hub in Banting/Selangor (Malaysia), where the foundations were laid at the end of March 2007, the company will further optimize service on a local basis.

Solar thermal energy in Australia

Cloncurry, Queensland is to be the site of a 10 MW power station using 8,000 mirrors to reflect sunlight onto graphite blocks.

True Temper Sports

True Temper also has a graphite manufacturing facility in Guangzhou, China.

Van Hove singularity

Highly anisotropic solids like graphite (quasi-2D) and Bechgaard salts (quasi-1D) show anomalies in spectroscopic measurements that are attributable to the Van Hove singularities.


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