People around the world don't put lead in lead pencils or any pencils! They put something called graphite. They use graphite because lead is poisonous. If a peice of lead touched you, you would have poison in you. Then eventually you would die. So that is what people put in lead.
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pencils contain lead. lead is dangerous for humans. many students put pencils in there mouth and can lead to lead poisoning. This can bring lawsuits against companies for negligence as the companies know the pencils contain lead which is toxic.
1. Find lead 2. Put in pencil Btw most pencils use graphite
Lead pencils used to contain lead. Now, graphite or a mixture of graphite and clay powder is used, but old habits die hard and some people still call them lead pencils. Also, even though lead has not been used in pencils for a long time, the paint on the outside contained lead until the middle of the 20th century. This was harmful for people who had a habit of chewing on their pencils.
Lead hasn't been used in pencils for many years. It's graphite nowadays.
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The lead in pencils are not made out of lead, as is common belief. Pencil lead is made out of graphite.
Lead was never actually used in pencils. The "lead" in pencils is actually a mix of graphite and clay. The switch to using graphite in pencils occurred in the 16th century.
In the USA, they no longer put lead in pencils. It is now graphite - a non-toxic substance.
When the graphite deposit that produced the first pencils was discovered, the people thought it was lead. Later, chemists told them it was graphite, a form of carbon, but the 'lead pencil' had already become so popular that the name persists to this day.
Lead is mainly used for pencils and for batteries.Hope this helped :)
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