Provided are an amorphous coke for a special carbon material characterized
in that it is an amorphous coke obtained by blending a coal tar base heavy oil
and/or a petroleum base heavy oil with a resin and subjecting the mixture to thermal
decomposition polycondensation; it has a larger thermal expansion coefficient than
that of a coke obtained from a heavy oil alone; and a molded article of the coke
is shrunk by 0.3% or more in terms of a volume change rate before and after the
treatment when it is subjected to graphitizing treatment, and a production process
of an amorphous coke for a special carbon material characterized in that in subjecting
a coal tar base heavy oil or a petroleum base heavy oil to thermal decomposition
polycondensation, the raw material is blended with a resin to modify a coke crystal structure.