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Graphite is mainly composed of carbon. Carbon makes up most of the molecular structures in our cells, so it won't do much harm if any. Graphite is mainly used In pencil lead, although there is actually no lead in it, we just call it that.

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Is graphite toxic?

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Yes you can die from eating led but, if it was a number 3 pencil that someone ate its graphite and you can only die from lead if you eat a lot of it for example half of a pencil or a whole pencil.


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Is eating graphite poison?

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Do you get lead poisoning from eating colouring pencil sharpens?

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Is eating the lead of pencils continuously unhealthy?

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Would you get sick by eating pencil lead?

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