Talk:Pyrolytic carbon

Buying It?
Where is a good place (good value for money\quality) to buy this materal? Alan2here 14:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)


 * For flat sheets for magnetic levitation and directional thermal conductivity experiments, try scitoys.com -> . Levitates pretty good, average quality. Random pencil lead and welding rod sometimes works good. --Splarka (rant) 08:11, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Does anyone know when it was invented? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.200.205 (talk) 17:15, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

There are a few links that can help in finding more information about the inventors : https://www.google.co.in/patents/US6075701?dq=pyrolytic+graphite&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMI2ePS17KVyQIVxo6OCh0WIAg8 https://www.google.co.in/patents/US3317338?dq=pyrolytic+graphite&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAWoVChMI2ePS17KVyQIVxo6OCh0WIAg8 https://www.google.co.in/patents/US4968527?dq=pyrolytic+graphite&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAmoVChMI2ePS17KVyQIVxo6OCh0WIAg8 [Source : Google]

Serious inaccuracy
I'm not qualified to write the article, but pyrolitic graphite was redirected to pyrolytic carbon. I have been told, THEY ARE NOT THE SAME.

One is diamagnetic, the other is not. One has single cleavage, the other does not.71.197.109.65 (talk) 01:31, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

levitating
Right or not: ? --Itu (talk) 07:59, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Role of anisotropy
Strongly diamagnetic materials, however, can be used for levitation above powerful magnets.

Does the strong anisotropy of the magnetic susceptibility in the case of pyrolytic carbon play a role in stabilizing the levitation? Or is it simply the (strong) diamagnetism?

Found the answer! 89.217.20.9 (talk) 21:10, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Insufficient material properties
It is used in high temperature applications such as missile nose cones, rocket motors, heat shields, laboratory furnaces, in graphite-reinforced plastic, coating nuclear fuel particles, and in biomedical prostheses.

This is stated in the lead, without having given a single statement of the material's exceptional physical properties, leaving the reader to induce backwards (melting point, toughness, hardness, thermal conductivity, heat of ablation could all be implicated). &mdash; MaxEnt 23:24, 23 January 2019 (UTC)