What is flake graphite？

(What is flake graphite？)

What is graphite?

Flake graphite is a natural crystalline graphite, which resembles fish phosphorus, is a hexagonal crystal system, in a laminar structure, with good high temperature resistance, electrical and thermal conductivity, lubrication, plasticity and acid and alkali resistance properties.

Flake graphite is a natural solid lubricant with a laminar structure and is abundant and inexpensive.

The crystals of scale graphite appear scaly, having been metamorphosed under high intensity pressure, and are available in large and fine scales. Scaled graphite has the greatest industrial value. Scaled graphite is superior to other types of graphite in terms of floatability, lubricity and desirability, and is arguably one of the best floatable ores in nature.

The main uses of flake graphite in industry

Flake graphite can be made into lubricants and refractory materials

Scaled graphite can be used to make high temperature crucible for smelting, lubricant for machinery industry, electrode and pencil core; it is widely used in metallurgical industry for advanced refractory materials and coatings, stabilizer for pyrotechnic materials for military industry, pencil core for light industry, carbon brush for electrical industry, electrode for battery industry, catalyst for chemical fertilizer industry, etc.

Flake graphite can be further processed into graphite milk, graphite products and other products.

After deep processing, scaled graphite can produce graphite milk, graphite sealing materials and composite materials, graphite products, graphite grinding additives and other high-tech products, becoming an important non-metallic mineral raw materials for various industrial sectors.

Flake graphite can replace copper as a click material

In the 1960s, copper was widely used as an electrode material, with a usage rate of about 90% and scaled graphite only about 10%; in the 21st century, more and more users began to choose scaled graphite as an electrode material, and in Europe, more than 90% of electrode materials are scaled graphite. Copper, the once dominant electrode material, has almost lost its advantage over graphite electrodes.

Will we run out of flake graphite?

If the shortage of lithium and cobalt is looming, the shortage of graphite is even more frightening… With demand for technical grade graphite set to increase by 200% in less than three years and 300% by 2025, North America will have to go from graphite zero to hero – fast.

What is flake graphite cast iron?

The graphite in gray cast iron has a flake-like structure which is largely responsible for the high machinability of this metal. The flake-like graphite structure gives rise to discontinuities in the metal matrix and subsequent reduced cutting forces.

Flake graphite can begin its geological life as either an organic or inorganic carbon.What is meant by “organic carbon” is that the source material is biological in nature.An example would be some ancient benthic micro-organism that died and fell to the sea bottom along with countless billions of others such organisms forming a lens or layer of carbonaceous sediment. Algae, in the form of algal mats are considered possible source material for pre-graphitic carbon. Inorganic carbon is carbon that was derived from previously formed carbonate minerals or some other non-biological source of carbon such as carbonatites which are igneous derived carbonate rocks. Most commercially significant deposits for flake graphite are probably of organic origin.

Depending on the degree of weathering of the ore rock, flake graphite is mined using standard hard or soft rock mining techniques. If the ore is hard-rock, it must be drilled and blasted. Highly weathered ore can literally be dug and hauled like sand to the floatation plant. The ore can be either quarried, open pit style, or shaft mined depending on the proximity of the ore body to the surface.

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(What is flake graphite？)