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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting an oxid, a substance produced as a fine powder by heating graphitic acid, the latter being formed by the interaction of graphite wit h potassium chlorate and strong nitric acid. The production from it of pyrographitic oxid is attended with notable intumescence.

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