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Aside from being the material in your lead pencils, graphite is of tremendous value as an industrial material. It is used to make the brushes for electric motors and generators, and it has wide use as an electrode in a number of applications, primarily batteries (like the "AA" or "AAA" cells in your remote control).

Certainly steel-making and other foundry uses demand considerable production of this refractory material. It also finds application in lubricants, brake lining materials and such. And now we demand the extremely strong and light graphite fabric components that often are termed carbon fiber. The future for this material is continuing to open up.

Graphite has been, is, and will continue to be critically important to maintaining and advancing modern civilization. And this because it is in things we use every day, and because it is used in industrial processes that provide the foundation we build our society on.

You may want to surf on over to the Wikipedia article on graphite and skim the short and easy-to-read section about the uses of this material. Will a link help? You'll find one just below this answer.

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