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IT is well known that potassium atoms lodge themselves between the basal planes of the graphite lattice to produce intercalation compounds in many different forms of graphite1. Glassy carbon is a very defective, randomly oriented polycrystalline form for which the 0002, 10&1bar;0 and 11&2bar;0 lines are very diffuse but clearly present. Intercalation compounds in such a material would seem to be improbable and, indeed, glassy carbon is inert to most molten metals.
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HALPIN, M., JENKINS, G. Disruption of Glassy Carbon in Potassium Vapour. Nature 218, 950 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218950a0
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