Carbon materials for missiles

Title: Carbon materials for missiles
Language: English
Year: 1960
Subject: Carbon and graphite products.
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Fulltext: While their race is rapidly disappearing, these anachronis tic people live out their days as either feckless casual workers or as living museum pieces for the education of tourists. It is hoped by Hokkaido officials that the prospective five-year uplift program will bring the remaining Ainus into closer attunement with the bustling life of the new Japan that is pass ing them by. * * * Carbon Materials for Missiles Diamonds, apart from being a girl’s best friend, are among the hardest things known and find many industrial uses. They are a form of carbon. Graphite, another form of carbon, also finds many uses in ato mic reactors, in lubricants, and in pencils. Now another form, pyrographite, has been deve’oned by the Raytheon Company sponsored by the Navy Bureau of Ordnance, as a possible answer to some of the problems in missile construction. The material, a high purity form of graphite, withstands temperatures up to 6700 degree Fahren heit higher than any other known element, and re mains strong, chemically inactive and impervious to gases. The secret of its great heat stability is that heat 'is conducted along its surface 500 times better than through it, thus preventing any excessive build-up of heat. * 16 Panorama