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What elements found in pencil?

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Modern pencil "lead" is made from the element Carbon (C) - in its soft form of graphite - plus a filler (like clay), all ground up very fine and then stuck together with glue. It has none of the actual chemical element Lead (Pb).

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The name "lead" is used because, before modern pencils were invented, it was known that a pure piece of the element Lead (Pb) can be used to make marks on wood or paper because it is very soft. It is not used today because real Lead and its compounds are poisonous and also very expensive compared to Carbon. (Carbon is basically soot.)

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Pencil lead contains the element carbon in the form (allotrope) of graphite. The powdered graphite is mixed with a clay binder.

Pencil lead has never contained any lead.

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graphite a form of the element Carbon



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The so-called 'lead' in pencils is not lead (Pb), atomic number 82, at all. It is graphite, which is an allotrope of carbon (C), atomic number 6.

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yes. that is why mothers always warned their children to not chew on pencils or mark on themselves with pencils because they could get 'lead' poisoning.

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No not at all.

Actually the material used in case of pencil is carbon oriented (graphite with some clay). The word 'lead' is not to be pronounced as 'led' but by 'leed'. Because the writing portion leads out of the wooden cylinder in which it is packed. But 'led' pronunciation is established and most of us mistook that pencil contains the element lead (Pb)

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The element in pencil lead is carbon in the form of graphite.

Finely ground graphite and clay powders are mixed. Adding water results in long spaghetti-like strings. They are then fired in a kiln. The final product is then dipped in oil or molten wax and glued between two pieces of shaped wood.

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The element carbon, in the form of graphite, is used in lead pencils.

Interestingly enough, diamond is another form of carbon.

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Many people call it lead but it is actually graphite.

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graphite... or lead in some old maker pencils

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The element used in the 'lead' pencils is not actually lead but carbon, in the form of graphite.

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carbon: in the form of graphite. Another form is diamonds

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