graphitization heat treatment

https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.G02692
A process of heat treatment of a
non-graphitic carbon
industrially performed at temperatures in the range between 2500 and 3300 K, to achieve
transformation
into
graphitic carbon
.
Note:
The term
graphitization
heat treatment does not include information as to the
crystallinity
achieved by the heat treatment, that is the extent of
transformation
into
graphitic carbon
or the degree of
graphitization
. Only for such a
transformation
into
graphitic carbon
should the term
graphitization
be used. Consequently: the common use of the term
graphitization
for the heat treatment process only, regardless of the resultant
crystallinity
, is incorrect and should be avoided.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 473. (Recommended terminology for the description of carbon as a solid (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)) on page 493 [Terms] [Paper]