needle coke
noun
A high-grade petroleum coke, used in making graphite for the electrodes of electric-arc furnaces, in which the carbon has a highly anisotropic structure containing parallel ribbon-like ordered domains.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Carbon.
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