It’s the Daily Mail, it’s most likely total fiction as they do this all the time.

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It is wizardry right enough - electricity goes in, magic occurs,l and machine goes ping

It’s definitely not as exciting as it sounds. It applies a large current through some graphite rods which causes the carbon to evaporate & deposit on a sample sat underneath. It’s used to coat electrically insulating samples with a conductive layer of carbon for electron microscopy.

We have a carbon evaporator that runs linux

A large-breasted frog it would seem.