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In article . com,
Rodney wrote:
6.Graphite molds is there a way for me to make mold using it. I Would
like able to pour it.


*Pour* it? Graphite is a crystalline form of carbon.
According
to my old copy of the _Handbook of Chemistry and Physics_, carbon's
melting point is 1350 C, and it *sublimes* (that is goes straight from
solid to vapor form) above 1300 C, so if you were to melt it to pour


Don
I don't want to melt it to pour.I am thinking in a cold cast way
Graphite powder mixed with polyurthane,epoxie, or some other type of
binder.
So I would beable to cast the mix have it set up and be able to blow
glass in it.


Hmm ... I really think that something like that would have
serious problems as anything other than perhaps a one-shot mold -- and
even then I would expect the epoxy or poly-whatever to outgas massively
on contact with the hot glass surface -- both cooling it too quickly
(risking shattering), and perhaps deforming the workpiece with bubbles
formed from contact with the mold's surface.

Good Luck,
DoN.
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