A graphitic carbon with more or less perfect three-dimensional hexagonal crystalline order prepared from non-graphitic carbon by graphitization heat treatment.
Note:
@N04194@ do not transform into @G02689@ on heat treatment at temperatures above 2500 K and therefore are not graphitized carbons.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 473. 'Recommended terminology for the description of carbon as a solid (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)' on page 494 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199567030473)