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I have had lead from a pencil in my skin for the last 8 years. is it dangerous?
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No: No, what we call lead in pencils is really graphite, not lead. I still have a piece in my skin from 5th grade and I am in my sixties, it will not harm you.
Answered 3/6/2018
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