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A pencil is a writing instrument with a thin core of graphite (or colored material) surrounded by wood, used for drawing, writing, and sketching. Pencils matter because they're affordable, widely available, and reliable tools that have remained essential for education, art, and everyday communication for centuries.
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- Subclass of
- writing implement
- Material used
- graphite
- Image
- 2014-01-16-Hittegods (12009261426).jpg
- Has use
- drawing
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- Unicode character
- ✏
- Commons category
- Pencils
- topic's main category
- Category:Pencils
- MCN code
- 9609.10.00
- discoverer or inventor
- Nicolas-Jacques Conté
- time of earliest written record
- 1688-00-00
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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