"Plumbago" is a word in ENGLISH
Same as Graphite.
A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped
corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.
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Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
Read the complete definitionAn elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. …
Read the complete definitionA vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and …
Read the complete definitionCharacterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
Read the complete definitionNative carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as …
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, containing, derived from, or resembling, graphite.
Read the complete definitionResembling graphite or plumbago.
Read the complete definitionA suffix used in naming minerals; as, chlorite, from its characteristic green color; barite, from its heaviness; graphite, from its …
Read the complete definitionA workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
Read the complete definitionA mineral occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum.
Read the complete definitionA slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in …
Read the complete definitionplúma n {1} ornamental feathers. {2} fountain, or dip pen, quill. {3} the graphite in pencils. v {1} [A; b(1)] …
Read the complete definitionA crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
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