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Lead?
Um...they stopped using lead years ago because it caused lead poisoning. Every pencil is now made with graphite. way to go.
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Mechanical pencils. <3
PS- Morning Glory, ftw.
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They are the diameter of the graphite sticks in millimeters, I think. .5 and .7 are the most common sizes. The size your pencil uses should be marked on your pencil.
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How is it a habit? I doubt you were alive when lead was used in pencils.
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I wish they sold the graphite in less than .5 here. Taiwan has this awesome .3 kind to refill .3 mechanical pencils. It's awesome and it's so easy to write small on paper.
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Its actually Grafite, not lead. Lead is poisoness and can kill you.
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I got the .3 refills too, in the same brand as all the common ones. ^^ They do sell it here, just less commonly. Try checking a big office supply store, or maybe an art store.
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.9 <-- the way to go
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^ WTF
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i'd much rather use wooden pencils. i don't care for mech. pencils because they always get stolen where i am. and i don't mind getting out of my desk and sharpening my pencils. but for me.. i get like 6 pencils sharpened and then i bring all that... instead of walking back and forth every five minutes.
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Even with .5 pencils, I'm always rotating it so I can get the sharpest edge. :/
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.9 isn't really that thick, Kilga. I dunno if you were saying WTF to that or not. The highest thickness of mechanical pencil graphite goes is 2.0, but you rarely see it. It's used for artwork, designing, etc.
And yeah, graphite started to be used around 1820...soo...it seems pretty ignorant for someone to call them "lead pencils". It's actually graphite + clay. The less clay, the darker the pencil mark will be.
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Yeah, it bugged me too that mechanical pencils were being referred to as "lead pencils" when really any pencil including wooden is a "lead" pencil (yes, even though it's no longer made of actual lead), but I didn't point it out because I didn't want to be pretentious about it. :/
But really, everyone calls those little graphite sticks "lead". Everyone knows it's not actually lead, but it's just one of those terms that stuck anyway. There's nothing wrong with calling them that. Edit: it's even in the dictionary. Quote:
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The reason why we call graphite lead is because other people do. Same reason why I have a mild prep accent: from listening to preps talk and scream at each other all the time, which appears to be all they do. (I say 'like' more often than I need to and I'm starting to say 'oh my god' more) Ugh. They make my head ache just thinking about them. I know this. Pencil is the only physical medium I actually work with, and I use two weights: 3H and HB. (Sometimes I use charcoal, but that's rare so it doesn't count)
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.5 or .7. I have .5s right now. In the past I've used .7s. I've never seen or heard of .9 or .3 before this. I'd be interested in .3. I didn't know they had anything EXCEPT HB leads... I thought that's just what people called them or it was a brand or something. Now I know it refers to the weight.
I never have a problem with my lead breaking anymore. I used to but I guess I just changed to a shorter tip. I also hate wooden pencils. Can't stand them. I don't think anybody even uses them at university - I almost forgot that they existed. I don't see pencil sharpeners ANYWHERE. Wooden pencils are so inconvenient and unreliable.
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