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A soft mineral that you uses each time to write a pencil is?
Graphite is a soft form of carbon used in pencils. The graphite is mixed with clay, which also contain minerals,
What can be made of graphite?
Graphite is pure carbon. A diamond is also pure carbon in a very specific crystal. Yet diamonds do not conduct electricity and graphite does. Graphite can form in plate like arrays of hexagonal crystals and in an amorphous, powdery form.
Why rubbing lead pencil on a key makes it turn in the lock?
The material that made pencil to write is a mixture of graphite.
Lead of a pencil made up of what?
Generally it's made of graphite. Graphite is a substance made of carbon. The carbon atoms are bonded together in a particular way that allows "sheets" of graphite to break off easily. When you write something, some of these sheets break off and end up on your paper.
How does the structure of graphite account for the design of graphite electrodes?
The structure of graphite accounts for the design of graphite electrodes in the sense that the tight structural composition of graphite makes it easy for them to be arranged in electrodes.
Why do lead pencils contain graphite?
Because if pencil doesnot have graphite,we cannot write anything.In pencils,the black element is graphite used to write anything.
What is a really good slogan for graphite?
If it's not graphite, you can't write.
What type of compound is graphite?
one that you write with
How does a pencil write on paper because there both wood?
the graphite in the pencil is soft, when you write/draw it rubs off on to the paper. (Graphite is a soft metal)
What is the material cause your pencil to write?
Graphite, an allotrope of carbon.
Where does the word graphite come from?
It was observed that graphite could be used to make marks on paper. The word "graph" comes from the Greek for "to write".
How does the pencil work?
The pencil works via a soft graphite core being wrapped in a durable wooden sheath. This allows the graphite to be exposed as needed to write.
What is the material in pencils that can write?
Pencil leads are made of a mixture of graphite and clay. The graphite is what makes the marks; the clay hold it together and controls the hardness of the lead.
What is a prefix for write?
graph- or gram- as in graphite and grammar
Who named the mineral graphite?
Mineral graphite was names by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789. The term is derived from the ancient Greek term "the write" because of its use in pencils.
A soft mineral that you uses each time to write a pencil is?
Graphite is a soft form of carbon used in pencils. The graphite is mixed with clay, which also contain minerals,
What mineral is used for making pencil lead?
What is the mineral used in the pencil that you write with? Graphite.
