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Decomposition of β-silicon carbide whiskers by heating in vacuum results in the formation of highly oriented graphite crystallites with basal planes tangent to the whisker surface but showing no structural relationship to the parent β-silicon carbide. Doubling of the 00.l reflections of graphite is explained by refraction of the electron beam from faces parallel to the basal planes in a direction normal to the whisker axis.