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P. AND L. SCHÜTZENBERGER1 reported that when cyanogen was passed down a porcelain tube containing gas carbon with powdered cryolite on its surface, heated to a cherry-red heat, decomposition occurred and elementary carbon separated in a bulky mass of very slender filaments. The filaments had some elasticity, were friable and marked paper. When aluminium was mixed with the gas carbon, non-elastic filaments separated round it which, on gentle compression, resembled graphite.
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GIBSON, J., RILEY, H. & TAYLOR, J. Filamentous Carbon. Nature 154, 544 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154544a0
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