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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do colored pencils sharpen like crap in most sharpeners?
gpt
They aren't made with the same stuff as your Dixon-Tigonderoga.

Standard pencil are made with graphite or charcoal, forms of carbon that is black in color. Colored pencils are made with wax or oil-based products that hold artificial pigments.