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carbon fibre
  1. 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
'carbon fibre' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
graphite - reinforced plastic

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