Modern pencil "lead" is made from the element Carbon (C) - in its soft form of graphite - plus a filler (like clay), all ground up very fine and then stuck together with glue. It has none of the actual chemical element Lead (Pb).
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The name "lead" is used because, before modern pencils were invented, it was known that a pure piece of the element Lead (Pb) can be used to make marks on wood or paper because it is very soft. It is not used today because real Lead and its compounds are poisonous and also very expensive compared to Carbon. (Carbon is basically soot.)
Pencil lead contains the element carbon in the form (allotrope) of graphite. The powdered graphite is mixed with a clay binder.
Pencil lead has never contained any lead.
graphite a form of the element Carbon
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The so-called 'lead' in pencils is not lead (Pb), atomic number 82, at all. It is graphite, which is an allotrope of carbon (C), atomic number 6.
yes. that is why mothers always warned their children to not chew on pencils or mark on themselves with pencils because they could get 'lead' poisoning.
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No not at all.
Actually the material used in case of pencil is carbon oriented (graphite with some clay). The word 'lead' is not to be pronounced as 'led' but by 'leed'. Because the writing portion leads out of the wooden cylinder in which it is packed. But 'led' pronunciation is established and most of us mistook that pencil contains the element lead (Pb)
The element in pencil lead is carbon in the form of graphite.
Finely ground graphite and clay powders are mixed. Adding water results in long spaghetti-like strings. They are then fired in a kiln. The final product is then dipped in oil or molten wax and glued between two pieces of shaped wood.
The element carbon, in the form of graphite, is used in lead pencils.
Interestingly enough, diamond is another form of carbon.
Many people call it lead but it is actually graphite.
graphite... or lead in some old maker pencils
The element used in the 'lead' pencils is not actually lead but carbon, in the form of graphite.
carbon: in the form of graphite. Another form is diamonds
With a pencil
The "lead" found in pencils is actually graphite, or to answer the question, the "blackelement found in a pencil is carbon (C).
yes
Hydrogen and helium
noble elements are the stable elements. They are found in group 18 in the periodic table.
What you see as a pencil line is graphite - carbon. The graphite is held together by a clay which will contain very many elements specific to the clay being used.
With a pencil
allotrope of carbon i.e. graphite
The "lead" found in pencils is actually graphite, or to answer the question, the "blackelement found in a pencil is carbon (C).
but cheakes make a pencil
Graphite
Graphite
The end of the pencil were the eraser is.
Carbon in the part where you draw with and then the elements that make wood which again is mostly carbon but there are many more elements that make up wood.
they just get a pencil and start sketching dummies
Graphite
Well there is Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen which makes up the plastic outside of a pencil sharpener. To know what element can be found inside you would have to know what a pencil sharpener is made up of on the inside.