In connection with his work on the utilization of artificial graphite, which he was capable of producing on a vast commercial basis, Dr. Edward Goodrich Acheson, by a process which he termed "deflocculation," succeeded in colloidalizing graphite and suspending it in both oil and water mediums. This method was a direct development of his work in 1901 when he found a means of improving the plasticity of clays1 by a colloidal process which, however, was not rec-* ognized as such at that time. _* The colloidal graphite suspensions . have long been articles of commerce . and are marketed under the names *
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