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  2. Blackboard - Wikipedia

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    Uses. Reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made. A blackboard or a chalkboard is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulphate or calcium carbonate, known, when used for this purpose, as chalk. Blackboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone.

  3. Chalk - Wikipedia

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    Blackboard chalk manufacturers now may use mineral chalk, other mineral sources of calcium carbonate, or the mineral gypsum (calcium sulfate). While gypsum-based blackboard chalk is the lowest cost to produce, and thus widely used in the developing world , use of carbonate-based chalk produces larger particles and thus less dust, and it is ...

  4. Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards

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    [1] [5] Most of the photographs show the chalkboard in a moment drawn from the mathematician's work on it, [1] depicting how mathematicians think, work, and communicate with each other. [5] Some other photographs show chalk drawings that were deliberately created to be photographed for this book. The mathematicians themselves are not depicted. [1]

  5. Einstein's Blackboard - Wikipedia

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    Einstein's Blackboard is a blackboard [ 1 ] which physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955) used on 16 May 1931 during his lectures while visiting the University of Oxford in England. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] The blackboard is in the collection of the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. [ 5 ][ 6 ] The equations in the blackboard are related to the ...

  6. Chalkboard scraping - Wikipedia

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    Chalkboard scraping. Scraping a chalkboard (also known as a blackboard) with one's fingernails produces a sound and feeling which most people find extremely irritating. The basis of the innate reaction to the sound has been studied in the field of psychoacoustics (the branch of psychology concerned with the perception of sound and its ...

  7. James Pillans - Wikipedia

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    Pillans home at 22 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh. Pillans home at 43 Inverleith Row, Edinburgh. Grave of James Pillans, St Cuthberts Churchyard, Edinburgh. James Pillans FRSE (1778–1864) was a Scottish classical scholar and educational reformer. He is credited with inventing the blackboard, but more correctly was the inventor of coloured chalk.

  8. Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk - Wikipedia

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    Hagoromo Bungu was founded in October 1932 as Nihon Chalk Seizosho. The original factory was located in Naka-ku, Nagoya, but was destroyed in August 1944 during World War II. The company was re-established in 1947 and renamed to Hagoromo Bungu. A factory in the nearby city of Kasugai was completed in 1961, and the offices moved there in 1992.

  9. Eating chalk often can disrupt your digestive system and cause damage to your internal organs. risks of eating chalk. Complications of eating chalk consistently may include: tooth damage or ...