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about 2 h Pencil

11/03/2007 11:59 AM

Sir,

Please tell us What does 'H" Stands in the pencil alos tell me what is difference between 2H ,3H and Hb marked on the pencil, What is best pencil to check the hardenss in coating

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11/03/2007 12:57 PM

They represent the lead's hardness.

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11/03/2007 2:36 PM

...and the B stands for Blackness

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11/03/2007 10:50 PM

and 2 stands for the numericity of the quality, it will vary...

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11/03/2007 11:01 PM

H is for Hard

B is for soft

each start at 1 and go up (2,3,4 etc)

HB is the middle values for pencils, the standard pencil so to say...

H1 is one step harder than an HB.

2B is two steps softer than an HB.....and so on!!

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11/03/2007 11:24 PM

This site is pretty explicit.

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11/04/2007 5:33 AM

thankyou gigaconcept for providing such useful info. this is the benefit of connected to cr4.
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11/04/2007 9:36 AM

Indeed CR4 is invaluable.

Also MrChevy's link refers to mine and contains an amaizing wealth of information.

So, thank you for participating.

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11/03/2007 11:50 PM

Wikipedia has a great article on pencils too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil
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11/04/2007 12:45 AM

I suppose everyone's heard about the constipated mathematician

He worked it out with a pencil.
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11/04/2007 9:48 AM

yes, groan, said the engineer with his slydrool

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11/04/2007 2:48 PM

Yeh!! And musicians do it in harmony.

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11/05/2007 4:07 PM

Dozens of soles were lost in the local shoe store fire...

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11/05/2007 5:40 PM

How many were left?

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11/06/2007 12:00 PM

About half, I would imagine...
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