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One person’s ashes could make 900 pencils

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The poetic concept of returning to the dirt masks a profoundly bizarre utility. Even after intense cremation burns away moisture and most organic structures, the remaining human ashes still contain a substantial volume of raw elemental carbon. If meticulously extracted and severely compressed, a single average adult leaves behind enough graphite to manufacture roughly nine hundred functional pencils.

One person’s ashes could make 900 pencils
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