Actually, in a wooden pencil, it's usually blended graphite and clay. In
some of the hi-tech mechanical pencils, it's graphite and polymers,
sometimes other pigments replacing the graphite.

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"Bob Walsh" wrote in message
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Diana,

Pencil "lead" is really graphite.

Bob


"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
nk.net...
Do pencils still contain actual lead? With all the talk about lead
poisoning
in kids, I would tend to doubt it. So, maybe it is the cedar. But I like
Steve's theory the best!

Diana