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This invention is directed toward an improved carbon electrode having a coefficient of thermal expansion of less than 3.5x10-7. Composition of the electrode includes needle coke in an amount of from about 60 to 90 weight percent and a quinoline soluble binder pitch in an amount of from about 10 to 40 weight percent, having a ring and ball softening point of from about 94 DEG to 150 DEG C. consisting of a highly aromatic condensation product of a distilled cycle oil extract with an extractant selected from the group consisting of furfural, phenol, B,B'-dichloro diethyl ether, nitrobenzene and sulfur dioxide.
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