The basic element used "to draw/write", for its utility in pencils, where it is known as lead is one of the carbon family ingredients. Unlike diamond, graphite has an ideal electrical conductivity, and can be utilized, for example, in the conducting electrodes of an arc lamp. Graphite clutches the peculiarity of being the most unwavering form of carbon under customary conditions. Therefore, it is utilized in thermo chemistry as the typical state for utilizing the heat for creation of carbon compounds. Graphite may be reflected on the premier grade of Coal, just above anthracite and otherwise called meta-anthracite, even though it is not normally utilized as fuel owing to its hardness to ignite.