What is carbon used for?

 

Graphite:

 

  • Battery electrodes

High-strength composites in:

  • Helicopter blades
  • Tennis rackets

  • Golf club shafts
  • Artificial heart valves
  • Lubricants
  • Moderators for nuclear reactors

 

Diamonds:

  • Ornaments
  • Cutting, grinding, and polishing tools
  • Styluses in high-quality record players
  • Anvils for creating GigaPascal pressures
  • Scratch-resistant coating

Activated carbon:

  • Filtration and purification filters for adsorption of impurities
  • Fuel/energy

Coke:

  • Reduction of metals from ores

Buckminster Fullerenes:

  • Lubricants
  • Catalysts
  • Polymers
  • Superconducting Materials

Carbon Black or Lampblack:

  • Pigment in black ink

  • Automobile tires
  • Carbon rods in dry-cell battery

 

 

 

 

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CVD Diamond films

Activated Charcoal in water treatment

 

 

 

Carbon black in tires