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Yes.
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Graphite and clay, no lead.
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not any more back in the day yes.. but they just keep the name
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I'm not sure if there is still lead but, I know they use carbon alot now. At least that's what some TV show about pencil making told me.
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They use to make lead pencils back before they relised they were dangerous, now they are mainly made with graphite. I believe the lead ones are still available on special order.
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They did say clay on that TV show! I remember now. Sorry!
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Pencils as we know them today never contained lead. Lead is a little too hard for writing on paper (http://www.webmineral.com/data/Lead.shtml). That which we call pencils have always been made from graphite. However, when graphite was first discovered it was incorrectly thought to be some kind of a derivative of lead. Thus, the idea that pencils contained lead.
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