Have you ever written your name with plumbago?
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Plumbago is another name for Graphite.

Girls using pencil and paperIn 1564 a special deposit of graphite was found near Borrowdale, Cumbria, England. This deposit turned out to be so pure and solid that it could be sawed thin square sticks. The people of that area discovered that the graphite was useful for marking sheep. At the time the material was called plumbago, or that which acts (writes) like lead. Word spread pretty quickly about how useful this material was for writing.

Later the Italians came up with a way to put the graphite sticks between two pieces of wood . Graphite is also used in stove polish, in paint and as a lubricant. Its one of the things used to lubricate nuclear power plants.

Other names for Graphite include Black Lead, Graphito, Pencil Ore and even Crayon.

(Plumbago is also the name for a type of plant but that’s another story.)
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