The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation which has the monopoly of importing petroleum has agreed to introduce lead free gasoline from 1996.

I am of course quoting from a famous essay by Leonard Read, the economist in the 1950s, called I, Pencil in which he wrote about how a pencil came to be made, and how nobody knows even how to make a pencil, because the people who assemble it don't know how to mine graphite, and they don't know how to fell trees and that kind of thing.

We had a teacher once who was a real dandy..

Lead

Pencil

Buckshot.

Pencil?

It is understood that the first lawsuit concerning graphene will be released next week. This has sounded the alarm for China s graphene products trademark brands.

It's lead!

Sell pencils.

The diamond structure is a three dimensional crystal while the graphite form consists of stacks of two dimensional sheets.

I created a little oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Pencil color

Calligraphy Tool

Pencil tool

And a pencil falls from the desk down to the floor, and I reach down to pick up the pencil.

Iraqis have been prevented from obtaining even pencils, pulp for paper making, printing inks and other basic requirements of culture and education.

If you go to the Gulf and you look around, you do see a lot of oil.

Four years later, the lead recycling companies were held responsible for lead poisoning.

Have you got a pencil?

The point of the pencil has become dull.

Do you have any pencils?

Even the pencil.

Do you have a pencil?

There. Here's a pencil.

I haven't got a pencil.

Do you have a pencil?

No pencil.

How about a pencil?

Do you want a pencil?

Give me the pencil.

And a pencil. Here's a pencil.

Plumb busted out.

They share your environmental stressors, the asbestos levels and lead levels, whatever you're exposed to.

Lead glazed crockery constitutes one of the main sources of exposure in our country, and in order to estimate the magnitude of the problem COFEPRIS has undertaken a Project for the Elimination of Exposure to Lead Oxide among persons engaged in manufacturing or using glazed crockery for the preparation, consumption or storage of food and drink, with the aim of reducing blood concentrations of lead among the population.

On the top line, this is the BP oil spill billions of barrels of oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico.

That is a pencil.

Tom picked up a pencil.

Who's taken my pencil?

Shot for a pencil?

How are you, then? Still pushing the old pencil?

Heavy as lead.

'Heavy as lead.

Get your pencil ready.

Do you have a pen on you?