Carmack was forced to scrap the return trip, required to collect the prize, after a graphite engine nozzle disintegrated.
In the same way, the pattern of holes in a crystal fibre can create the equivalent for light of a graphite core and a diamond cladding.
M-5 rocket last month seems to have been caused by a damaged graphite nozzle in the first-stage engine.
In one of such sessions, together with his doctoral student Konstantin Novoselov, he used a piece of ordinary sticky tape (which allegedly they found in a bin) to peel off a very thin layer of graphite, taken from a pencil.
Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, of the University of Manchester, made graphene in 2004 using what may be the simplest experiment ever to win a Nobel prize: they peeled it off the surface of a piece of graphite using sticky tape.
But in 1564, a huge cache of graphite was discovered in Borrowdale, England.
Think of it this way: The graphite in a pencil and a diamond differ only in how their carbon atoms are arranged.
Scientists of the day thought graphite was a form of lead--that's why we still call the stuff in pencils "lead, " even though it's graphite.
Every few years a new generation of graphite was introduced in pursuit of what had become the fly-fishing grail: allowing flies to be cast farther and farther.
It comes with a pretty high performance shaft for a stock selection, the graphite Aldila Phenom.
He embraced graphite yet created a rod with a bamboolike, traditional feel.
For instance, the ultra-thin layers of graphene (a two-dimensional form of graphite) are formed by injecting liquid solutions containing carbon and silicon into an extremely hot, ionised gas (plasma) of argon.
Belonging to a class of worlds known as diamond planets, 55 Cancri e is thought to be rich in the element carbon, which can exist in a variety of structural forms such as graphite (the material used as pencil lead), graphene, or diamond.
Right now, graphite has to be mixed with a binding material before being attached to this copper current collector.
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Pencil manufacturers wanted to advertise that they were using high-quality Chinese graphite, so they painted them a color associated with Chinese royalty.
For instance, graphite and diamond are both made of carbon, but the difference in the crystalline arrangements of their carbon atoms means that graphite conducts electricity while diamond is a good insulator.
Graphite is generally soft and crumbly, so soon after, Italian craftsmen came up with the idea of hollowing out a stick of juniper wood and filling it with graphite.
And that smooth drag comes from the graphite-impregnated cork disc, which acts like a brake pad, slowing it down without locking.
She also controls chemical manufacturer Altana and holds stakes in wind power outfit Nordex AG and carbon and graphite producer SGL and Geohumus, which focuses on developing a water storing granulate to be used in agriculture.
The trick is to replace graphite with tin for the anode, which is one of the two main components in a battery cell, said Grant Norton, who headed the research and is a professor of mechanical and materials engineering at the university.
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Gateway's new lines feature shiny platinum desktops with dark graphite highlights and all-platinum laptops that, with their shiny, futuristic look, bear a passing resemblance to the Titanium G4 laptops released by Apple Computer (nyse: AAPL - news - people ).
As for the foyer: The dark plastered walls are going to be covered up by leather graphite-colored panels to lighten the space and the LED star is going to be exchanged for a more subdued photograph of a tree.
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