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  2. Pounce (powder) - Wikipedia

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    Pounce is gently sprinkled all over the writing on the paper. When using a quill or a steel nib, and with inks that are made up to match those typically in use during the 18th and 19th centuries, and provided the pen has been used with the fine strokes typical of handwriting of that period, the handwriting will be sufficiently dry within 10 seconds to allow the paper to be folded without blotting.

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    Winter air tends to be exceptionally dry, stripping so much moisture from your hair. So, you'll want to take extra steps to keep your hair as hydrated as can be. That said, hair masks are "essential!"

  4. This is the surprising reason your pen caps have holes in them

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    RELATED: DIYs to spruce up your office supplies Business Insider points out that between 2000 and 2010, there were more than 10,000 reported cases of people swallowed parts of pens or pencils ...

  5. Ink - Wikipedia

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    Bottles of ink from Germany Writing ink and a quill. Ink is a gel, sol, or solution that contains at least one colorant, such as a dye or pigment, and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing or writing with a pen, brush, reed pen, or quill.

  6. Gel pen - Wikipedia

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    Gel pens. Compared to other inks, gel ink has higher melting point viscosity, which supports a higher proportion of pigments in the medium.The pigments are typically copper phthalocyanine, carbon black and iron oxides, and the gel is made up of water and biopolymers, such as xanthan gum and tragacanth gum, as well as some types of polyacrylate thickeners.

  7. Correction fluid - Wikipedia

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    Correction fluid was applied on a glass base (visible in the bottom-right corner of all SEM images). The exact composition of correction fluid varies between manufacturers, but most fluids are composed of an opacifying agent , a solvent (or thinner) and an adulterant 'fragrance' to discourage abuse .

  8. Fountain pen ink - Wikipedia

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    The ideal fountain pen ink is free-flowing, free of sediment, and non-corrosive. These qualities may be compromised in the interests of permanence, manufacturability and in order to use some widely available dyes. [4] A form of ink that predates fountain pens by centuries is iron gall ink. This blue-black ink is made from iron salts and tannic ...

  9. Pen - Wikipedia

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    A luxury pen. A pen is a common writing instrument that applies ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. [1] Early pens such as reed pens, quill pens, dip pens and ruling pens held a small amount of ink on a nib or in a small void or cavity that had to be periodically recharged by dipping the tip of the pen into an inkwell.