Talk:Gas carbon

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Is gas carbon a conductor or insulator ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.82.83.135 (talk • contribs) 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Conductor. In fact, it has slightly better conductivity than graphite. Zaereth (talk) 18:17, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Wrong name

I followed a link to this article because I'd never heard of carbon in a gaseous state unless heated above its sublimation point.

Turns out, what this article is describing is called coke (fuel), and we already have an article on that. In specific, this is retort coke, which is made from coal and was the original form of coke, as opposed to petroleum coke made from distilling crude oil which is the most common today.

Two of the references in this article didn't check out, and the other is questionable at best. Maybe this is an archaic name or something, but somehow I don't think so. A check of google, including google books going back to the 1800s, shown no usage of this term. I now realize that it's referring to coal-gas carbon, but that's not what it sounds like, and nobody seems to have ever used it beside a few websites that have basically copied this article.

Normally, I would think this article should be merged with the coke article, but everything here is already over there in greater detail. Being that it's an unused term, maybe it would be better to just delete it, I'm not sure. But there's no point in having two articles on the same subject. Zaereth (talk) 18:29, 17 January 2024 (UTC)