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🪨 To make graphite 📊 To make a graph
to graphitize

to graphitize

9.4
To change carbon material into graphite by heating or chemicals
  • verb
  • /ˈɡræfɪtaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : grafitizar
  • The researchers needed to graphitize the carbon samples to analyze their conductivity.

Examples

  • Thickness values were estimated from the absorption of "graphitized" films at 157 nm (absorption coefficient approximately 8 micro m -1).

    Academic text (2001)

  • GRAPH: Figure 2; Normalized thickness remaining of graphitized poly(norbornene) film irradiated at 157 nm in different concentrations of oxygen.

    Academic text (2001)

  • To improve the performance of the battery, the engineers decided to graphitize the carbon material.

  • The process will graphitize the carbon-rich material, making it suitable for use in high-temperature applications.

Surface Forms

graphitize infinitive
graphitized past
graphitized past participle
graphitizing present participle
graphitizes third person singular

Morphology

graphitize = graphite (transparent) = graphite + ize

The meaning is clearly derived from 'graphite' with the suffix '-ize' indicating conversion into graphite.

Etymology

Graphitize comes from graphite, which traces back to the Greek root graphein meaning 'to write', because people first used graphite for writing in pencils, and the ending -ize means 'to make', so to graphitize is to 'make into graphite'.