All varieties of substances consisting of the element carbon in the allotropic form of
graphite irrespective of the presence of structural defects.
Note:
The use of the term graphitic carbon is justified if three-dimensional hexagonal crystalline long-range order can be detected in the material by
diffraction methods, independent of the
volume fraction and the homogeneity of distribution of such crystalline domains. Otherwise, the term
non-graphitic carbon should be used.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 473
(Recommended terminology for the description of carbon as a solid (IUPAC Recommendations 1995))
on page 493
