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2 years, 3 months ago

is lead still used in the production of pencils?

i.e. when writing with a #2 pencil does it through off lead dust?
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buddawiggi | 2 years, 3 months ago
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Lead pencils do not have any lead in them. Graphite has been the standard for quite some time. At the time of the discovery of a large deposit of graphite in England in the early 1500s chemistry was not as advanced as it is today and the graphite was thought by the Englishmen to be a type of lead and given this name "plumbago" which is Latin for "lead ore" or "acts like lead". This was where the confusion came about with lead and pencils and to this day the core of a pencil is called pencil lead although they are made of graphite.
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bernd | 2 years, 2 months ago
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It's not just graphite, rather it's a compound of graphite and clay.

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vicgoodwin | 2 years, 3 months ago
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Pencils are made with Graphite and contain no lead.

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