twrenvstr

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Lead.....Paint Chips and Pencils...

mzz663 @mzz663 (2772) • United States 20 Sep 07

Can chewing on pencils be as damaging to someone as chewing on paint chips? are lead pencils actually with lead? I thought they were made of graphite, but then why are they called lead? are there poisonus levels of lead in a...

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twrenvstr I chewed a lot of pencils in the 50s and 60s. Who knows if the paint had lead and how much? I'm tired of all the brilliant people talking about the graphite in the middle. By the way, original pencils were lead, but not for the last teo hundred years.

2 Apr 09