Lore EA graft
"corruption"
circa 1860
from Old English grafan "to dig, dig up; engrave, carve, chisel"
Old Norse grafa "to dig; engrave; inquire into"
from the same source as grave (n.), Old English græf "grave; trench; cave"
"The normal mod. representation of OE. græf would be graff" (OED)
"shoot inserted into another plant," late 15th
alteration of Middle English graff (14th century)
the terminal -t in the English word is not explained.
Surgical sense is from 1871
from Latin graphium "stylus"
from Greek grapheion "stylus"
Late Latin (post 15th) grapheum, graphei "office"
imp, inject, affix, append, annex
"Graphene, a two-dimensional form of crystalline carbon, either a single layer of carbon atoms forming a honeycomb (hexagonal) lattice or several coupled layers of this honeycomb structure. The word graphene, when used without specifying the form (e.g., bilayer graphene, multilayer graphene), usually refers to single-layer graphene.
Graphene is a parent form of all graphitic structures of carbon:
‣ graphite, which is a three-dimensional crystal consisting of relatively weakly coupled graphene layers;
‣ nanotubes, which may be represented as scrolls of graphene; and
‣ buckyballs, spherical molecules made from graphene with some hexagonal rings replaced by pentagonal rings."
Encyclopedia Britannica
Graphite was commonly known as black lead.
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