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No, it's a compound machine.
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What type of simple machine is a pencil sharpener?
A pencil sharpener is a compound machine made up of simple machines, like the screw and lever.
What type of simple machine is a pencil-sharpener?
A pencil sharpener is an example of a simple machine known as a wedge. The blade inside the sharpener is shaped like a wedge, which helps to cut and shape the pencil tip when it is inserted and rotated.
What simple machine is a sharpner?
The blade of a pencil sharpener is a wedge.
What is the thing in the pencil sharpener after you sharpen your pencil?
After a pencil is sharpened, the extra materials left in the sharpener are known as pencil shavings. These should be dumped regularly as old-school electric pencil sharpeners have been known to rarely catch on fire due to an overflow of pencil shavings in the machine.
Is a pencil sharpener a kind of pulley?
No, a pencil sharpener is not any kind of pulley.
What type of simple machine is a pencil sharpener?
A pencil sharpener is a compound machine made up of simple machines, like the screw and lever.
What type of simple machine is a pencil-sharpener?
A pencil sharpener is an example of a simple machine known as a wedge. The blade inside the sharpener is shaped like a wedge, which helps to cut and shape the pencil tip when it is inserted and rotated.
What simple machine is a pencil sharpener?
A pencil sharpener is made up mostly of a helical inclined plane (screw) and a lever.
What simple machine is a sharpner?
The blade of a pencil sharpener is a wedge.
A pencil sharpener is a compound machine?
yes it is.
What machine is a pencil sharpener an example of?
Wedge
What machine is sharpner?
The blade of a pencil sharpener is a wedge.
Is pencil sharpener a compound machine?
Yes, it is.
Is a pencil sharpener a complex machine?
yes, it is!
How do you sharpen the brow pencil that comes with the brow kit?
A simple pencil sharpener will work wonders.
How is dowel made?
by a machine that works like a pencil sharpener but cuts straight
What are the jobs of the gears in an electric pencil sharpener?
the basic Boston pencil sharpeners are really very simple you have a pretty much simple ring and pinion system the pinion (motor)spins at 15 revolutions to 1 revolution of the ring (sharpener) to turn said sharpener
