A sharp piece of graphite from a broken pen is not something you would want in your eyes either
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NuraShiny@hexbear.net 3 weeks agoThere is no way either side used lead pencils. Saying lead is in pencils is a very outdated thing, it’s all graphite these days.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
it hasn’t been graphite for while now either….
pencil lead
Vespair@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Chalk isn’t chalk?
Arcka@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Regular chalk is calcium carbonate. Crayola’s website says their sidewalk chalk uses calcium sulfate (gypsum as an ingredient in plaster of paris).
So they’re both calcium salts.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
no