Title: graphitized carbon
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - graphitized carbon
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.G02693
Status: current

Definition
A graphitic carbon with more or less perfect three-dimensional hexagonal crystalline order prepared from non-graphitic carbon by graphitization heat treatment.

Note
Non-graphitizable carbons do not transform into graphitic carbon on heat treatment at temperatures above \(2500\ \rm{K}\) and therefore are not graphitized carbons.

Related Terms
- Non-graphitizable carbons: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/N04194
- graphitic carbon: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/G02689
- graphitization heat treatment: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/G02692
- non-graphitic carbon: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/N04193

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)

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Citation: Citation: 'graphitized carbon' 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.G02693
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