The "lead" of the pencil is actually a mixture of graphite, clay and wax with a binder that seals the lead in the wooden shaft.
Source: tatoeba (6177801)
Graphite
//ˈɡɹæfaɪt//
Synonyms for "graphite" (18 found)
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Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (5)
Related words (9)
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Translations
67 translations across 50 languages.
Bengali
1 entries- কৃষ্ণসীস noun (form of carbon)
Bulgarian
2 entries- графит noun (form of carbon)
- графит noun (colour)
Catalan
1 entries- grafit noun (form of carbon)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 石墨 noun (form of carbon)
Czech
2 entries- grafit noun (form of carbon)
- tuha noun (form of carbon)
Danish
1 entries- grafit noun (form of carbon)
Dutch
1 entries- grafiet noun (form of carbon)
Esperanto
1 entries- grafito noun (form of carbon)
Estonian
2 entries- grafiit noun (form of carbon)
- metaantratsiidiks noun (form of carbon)
Finnish
4 entries- grafiitinharmaa noun (colour)
- grafiitti noun (form of carbon)
- hiilikuitu noun (composite plastic)
- hiilikuitukomposiitti noun (composite plastic)
French
1 entries- graphite noun (form of carbon)
Galician
1 entries- grafito noun (form of carbon)
German
1 entries- Graphit noun (form of carbon)
Greek
1 entries- γραφίτης noun (form of carbon)
Greenlandic
2 entries- aqerluusassaq noun (form of carbon)
- torsummiutaq noun (form of carbon)
Hindi
2 entries- ग्रेफाइट noun (form of carbon)
- लिखिज noun (form of carbon)
Hungarian
1 entries- grafit noun (form of carbon)
Icelandic
2 entries- grafít noun (form of carbon)
- ritblý noun (form of carbon)
Ido
1 entries- grafito noun (form of carbon)
Irish
1 entries- graifít noun (form of carbon)
Italian
1 entries- grafite noun (form of carbon)
Japanese
2 entries- 石墨 noun (form of carbon)
- 黒鉛 noun (form of carbon)
Korean
2 entries- 석묵 noun (form of carbon)
- 흑연 noun (form of carbon)
Lao
1 entries- ຫິນດຳ noun (form of carbon)
Latin
1 entries- plumbāgō noun (form of carbon)
Marathi
1 entries- ग्रॅफाइट noun (form of carbon)
Mongolian
1 entries- бал чулуу noun (form of carbon)
Māori
1 entries- matāpango noun (form of carbon)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- grafitt noun (form of carbon)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- grafitt noun (form of carbon)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- غرافیت noun (form of carbon)
Persian
1 entries- گرافیت noun (form of carbon)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Blie noun (form of carbon)
Polish
1 entries- grafit noun (form of carbon)
Portuguese
2 entries- grafita noun (form of carbon)
- grafite noun (form of carbon)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਗਰੇਫ਼ਾਈਟ noun (form of carbon)
Romanian
1 entries- grafit noun (form of carbon)
Russian
1 entries- графи́т noun (form of carbon)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- grafit noun (form of carbon)
Slovak
1 entries- tuha noun (form of carbon)
Slovene
1 entries- grafit noun (form of carbon)
Spanish
3 entries- grafito noun (form of carbon)
- plombagina noun (form of carbon)
- plumbagina noun (form of carbon)
Swedish
3 entries- blyerts noun (form of carbon)
- blyerts noun (colour)
- grafit noun (form of carbon)
Tagalog
2 entries- grapito noun (form of carbon)
- hitam noun (form of carbon)
Tamil
1 entries- கடுங்கரி noun (form of carbon)
Thai
1 entries- ถ่านดำใช้ทำดินสอ noun (form of carbon)
Turkish
1 entries- grafit noun (form of carbon)
Vietnamese
1 entries- than chì noun (form of carbon)
Welsh
1 entries- graffit noun (form of carbon)
Yiddish
1 entries- גראַפֿיט noun (form of carbon)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Two kinds of lubricant are used on a bicycle--oil and graphite.
Source: tatoeba (8811206)
Only oil of the best quality and pure graphite should be used.
Source: tatoeba (8811207)
But the project's principal investigator, at the materials science center of Trinity College in Dublin, says it can be done by mixing graphite with water and a surfactant, a form of soap, in an ordinary kitchen blender.
Source: tatoeba (11054554)
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