{"id":16170,"date":"2023-10-22T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16170"},"modified":"2025-04-04T07:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T02:00:19","slug":"graphite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/graphite\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphite"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Graphite<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0an opaque, non-metallic carbon polymorph that is blackish silver in colour and metallic to dull in sheen.<\/li>\n<li>Since it resembles the metal lead, it is also known colloquially as\u00a0black lead or plumbago.<\/li>\n<li>It is formed by the metamorphosis of sediments containing carbonaceous material.<\/li>\n<li>It is a naturally occurring form of crystalline carbon.<\/li>\n<li>It is extremely\u00a0soft, cleaves with very light pressure, and has a very low specific gravity.<\/li>\n<li>In contrast, it is\u00a0extremely resistant to heat and nearly inert in contact with almost any other material.<\/li>\n<li>These extreme properties give it a wide range of uses in metallurgy and manufacturing.<\/li>\n<li>Molecular structure\n<ul>\n<li>It\u00a0consists of a ring of six carbon atoms closely bonded together hexagonally in widely spaced layers.<\/li>\n<li>The bonds within the layers are strong but the bonds between the layers are less in number and therefore are weaker.<\/li>\n<li>Graphite is the stable form of carbon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Applications: It is used in pencils, lubricants, crucibles, foundry facings, polishes, arc lamps, batteries, brushes for electric motors, and cores of nuclear reactors.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0mined\u00a0extensively in\u00a0China, India, Brazil, North Korea, and Canada.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Metal?<\/h3>\n<p>Metals are a class of chemical elements characterized by their distinctive physical and chemical properties. These properties make them essential in various industrial, technological, and everyday applications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/20\/economy\/china-graphite-export-curbs-hnk-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>China restricts exports of graphite as it escalates a global tech war<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphite is an opaque, non-metallic carbon polymorph that is blackish silver in colour and metallic to dull in sheen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}