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Pencil leads are always made out of graphite. The term lead comes from history, when they were made from lead, but they are now made from graphite.
It is the part of the pencil that makes the mark on the paper. Pencils used to use lead for this but the lead has been replaced with graphite.
The shell or carapce made of wood in pencil having a graphite refill in it is an insulator but as graphite is good conductor of electricity so overall a pencil can cunduct current in it.
The pencil is actually assembled around the "lead" (which is actually not lead but is graphite). The pencil has two halves with a groove in each one, and they are sandwiched around the strip of graphite.
No. Lead is a realtively good conductor. The insulator is the wood on the outside of the lead.
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Prior to modern graphite pencils, the pencil was simply a rod of soft lead metal. The alternative was the quill pen.
Graphite and TiO2 for the pencil paint
The part of the pencil that does the actual writing, called the pencil lead, is actually made of a mineral called graphite.
Pencil lead is made of graphite and clay. Newer recipes for pencil lead use waxy polymers to bind the graphite to produce a lead that does not snap when the pencil is flexed.
You think probable to graphite.
Graphite is denser than charcoal, and not as easily smudged.
No ,because there is no lead in a graphite pencil, only carbon.
The lead in a pencil is actually graphite, a form of carbon. Graphite is not poisonous.
It's not a 'lead' pencil it's made primarily of graphite
Pencil is made from graphite
What is the mineral used in the pencil that you write with? Graphite.