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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 Blackboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone.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. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Chalkboard eraser - Wikipedia

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    Chalkboard eraser. A chalkboard eraser is a special type of eraser specifically used to erase chalk markings on slating paint (used on chalkboards and slates). It is most commonly made of felt strips attached to a handle. Chalkboard erasers are typically broad and rectangular, intended to clear large areas for new content as part of a lecture ...

  7. Blackboard bold - Wikipedia

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    Blackboard bold is a style of writing bold symbols on a blackboard by doubling certain strokes, commonly used in mathematical lectures, and the derived style of typeface used in printed mathematical texts. The style is most commonly used to represent the number sets (natural numbers), (integers), (rational numbers), (real numbers), and (complex ...

  8. 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]

  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 ...

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