Graphite is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 364 anagrams from letters in graphite (aeghiprt).
1790-1800; German Graphit Greek gráph(ein) to write, draw + German -it -ite1
The use of graphite did not become general until about 1850.
But we had the graphite [reactor core] exposed to the air for four days—land for 30 kilometers around was contaminated.
The graphite is recovered by mechanical processes of sorting.
It is crystallized, but this can be said of graphite as well.
Close to the filament is a graphite disk which serves as one of the electrodes.
The reactor itself, a massive gridlike metal and graphite structure, 36 feet high.
In some instances, as in the case of graphite, the mixture may be merely mechanical.
In the oldest of the rocks there are beds of graphite, from which lead pencils are made.
(d) Rub the back of the tracing with graphite (the lead of the pencil).
Lucky there is plenty of graphite to be had, or wed be stuck.
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