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chalk stick

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Also known as blackboard chalk

writing implement

In the Vinony graph

Within Vinony's link graph, chalk stick connects to blackboard.

Its subject is documented across 47 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Other names
Chalkboard, writing-board
Uses
Reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made

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Wikidata facts

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Has use
drawing
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Commons category
Chalk sticks
different from
Kreda
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Encyclopedic overview

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, better known as chalk.

Blackboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chalk stick” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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