carbon fibre

noun

a black silky thread of pure carbon made by heating and stretching textile fibres and used because of its lightness and strength at high temperatures for reinforcing resins, ceramics, and metals, esp in turbine blades and for fishing rods

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It was the first commercial plane to be built primarily of composites such as carbon fibre, rather than aluminium, in order to reduce weight.

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The documentary also reveals the carbon fibre used to build the submersible started to break apart a year before the fatal dive.

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Titan had never undergone an independent safety assessment, known as certification, and a key concern was that its hull - the main body of the sub where the passengers sat - was made of layers of carbon fibre mixed with resin.

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Carbon fibre is a highly unusual material for a deep sea submersible because it is unreliable under pressure.

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A known problem is that the layers of carbon fibre can separate, a process called delamination.

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