Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Graphite is a substance made of carbon, and ocular trauma in a younger age group has been known to happen with ...

In spite of the consumer love affair with high-tech tablets and other digital devices, people are still enthusiastic about making their mark using low-tech, graphite-lead pencils. That gave pencil ...

(KUTV) For literally hundreds of years, they have been called "lead pencils," despite the fact that what is really inside them is graphite. According pencils.com, it all dates back to England in the ...

Q Were pencils ever really made with lead, or has it been graphite all along? A Stefan, when I read your question I thought, "I betcha they were once made with lead -- say, back before the 1920s. Then ...

For simplicity, I tend to use a #2 graphite pencil for most of my deep-sky drawings. After all, a pencil and paper are all that’s really needed to record an observation. Is a minimalist approach the ...