“…Interrupting for a moment the historical order of events, we note that, throughout the past century, different experiments located the graphite melting curve at rather different temperatures [66,60,67,68,65,69,70,71,72,73,74,75]. At low pressure, the melting temperature (T m ) was found at values ranging from ∼ 3800 to ∼ 5000 K. Asinovskii et al [76] pointed out the non negligible dependence of graphite T m on the heating rate of the sample.…”