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Grapheme vs Graphene - What's the difference?

grapheme | graphene |

As nouns the difference between grapheme and graphene

is that grapheme is a fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul while graphene is any polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having the structure of part of a layer of graphite.

grapheme

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul.
  • In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.

    • graphene

    English

    (wikipedia graphene)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) Any polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having the structure of part of a layer of graphite.
  • (inorganic chemistry) An arbitrarily large-scale, one-atom-thick layer of graphite, an allotrope of carbon, that has remarkable electric characteristics.
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    • Derived terms

    * -ene (monolayer materials similar to graphene) * graphane * penta-graphene

    Related terms

    * graphite

    See also

    * benzene * cycloalkene * diamond * fullerene