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		shuntress on Nov 22, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I, Pencil (1958) What is 'from scratch'? Why can we use anything other than elemental hydrogen? Shit. Turns out humans, as a species, cannot make a pencil from scratch.

jxramos on Nov 22, 2016 [–]

I'd say scratch means from raw materials as found in their natural state on Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_material

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