The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Graphitic \Gra*phit"ic\, a.
Pertaining to, containing, derived from, or resembling,
graphite.
[1913 Webster]
Graphitic acid (Chem.), an organic acid, so called because
obtained by the oxidation of graphite; -- usually called
mellitic acid.
Graphitic carbon, in iron or steel, that portion of the
carbon which is present as graphite. --Raymond. Graphitoid
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mellitic \Mel*lit"ic\, a. [Cf. F. mellitique. See Mellite.]
(Chem.)
(a) Containing saccharine matter; marked by saccharine
secretions; as, mellitic diabetes.
(b) Pertaining to, or derived from, the mineral mellite.
[1913 Webster]
Mellitic acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, organic
substance, C6(CO2H)6, occurring naturally in combination
with aluminium in the mineral mellite, and produced
artificially by the oxidation of coal, graphite, etc., and
hence called also graphitic acid.
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