02687 IUPAC Gold Book - graphite material 10.1351/goldbook.G02687 G02687 current 1 A material consisting essentially of graphitic carbon. The use of the term graphite as a short term for material consisting of graphitic carbon is incorrect. The term graphite can only be used in combination with other nouns or clarifying adjectives for special types of graphite materials (graphite electrodes, natural graphite and others). The use of the term graphite without a noun or clarifying adjective should be restricted to the allotropic form of the element carbon. graphite https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/G02684 graphitic carbon https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/G02689 natural graphite https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/N04088 PAC, 1995, 67, 473. 'Recommended terminology for the description of carbon as a solid (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)' on page 492 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199567030473) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/G02687/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/G02687/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/G02687/plain Citation: 'graphite material' 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.G02687 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. 2026-04-19T04:11:40+00:00