A person who works with graphite, particularly in mining, processing, or industrial applications.
From graphite plus -er suffix denoting an agent or person. Graphite comes from German 'Graphit,' from Greek graphein, as ancient peoples confused it with lead.
Graphite miners have had one of the dirtiest jobs in history, breathing black dust their whole careers — yet they made possible everything from pencils to the electrodes that refine metals!
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