00646 IUPAC Gold Book - binder 10.1351/goldbook.B00646 B00646 current 1 Usually a coal tar pitch or petroleum pitch (but may include thermosetting resins or mesophase pitch powders) which, when mixed with a binder coke or a filler, constitutes a carbon mix. This is used in preparation of the formation of shaped green bodies and subsequently carbon artifacts. binder coke https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/B00648 carbon artifacts https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/C00823 carbon mix https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/C00842 coal tar pitch https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/C01121 filler https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/F02363 mesophase pitch https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/M03850 petroleum pitch https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/P04523 PAC, 1995, 67, 473. 'Recommended terminology for the description of carbon as a solid (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)' on page 477 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199567030473) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/B00646/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/B00646/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/B00646/plain Citation: 'binder' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.B00646 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-04-18T23:29:39+00:00