How can dry lubricants like graphite work better than liquids? Wouldn’t they just cause more friction or wear?

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Wikipedia article on the subject was a little too technical, getting into layered molecular structure and non-lamellar structures and such. Hoping this sub can make sense of it.

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Two sheets of graphite have very little holding them together, and because of how the atoms are oriented, little friction occurs between them once they get moving. So imagine having two very smooth surfaces sliding over each other.

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