from staples.
The best places to go for pencil sharpeners are Office Depot, Office Max and staples, but anywhere that would sell art or school supplies will have pencil sharpeners.
You can buy electric pencil sharpener at Ebay or Amazon online. The product include shipping fee rates depending on your current location. The electric pencil sharpeners has different colors and shapes.
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usually pencil sharpeners are made of plastic and metal.
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That would be its inventor, Bernard Lassimone
If you are looking for mechanical pencil sharpeners, local office supply stores are a good starting point. If they do not carry them, they can mostly likely direct you on where to find them.
Yes, battery operated sharpeners are cheaper when you buy them. But keep in mind that the batteries cost money too and eventually you would have been off cheaper with a non-battery operated one.
So that you'll be able to sharpen pencils of course!
You can buy a set of 10 pencils for around $3 from Walmart, but at different places there are different prices. The dollar store has them for a dollar, well, of course.
Carbon is used in pencil sharpeners in the form of graphite, which is a carbon allotrope. Graphite is a soft material that easily shears off as pencils are sharpened, allowing for a new, sharp point to be exposed. The rubbing of the pencil against the inner blades of the sharpener grinds away the graphite, creating the fine pencil shavings that are collected in the shavings compartment.