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India ink (British English: Indian ink; [1] also Chinese ink) is a simple black or coloured ink once widely used for writing and printing and now more commonly used for drawing and outlining, especially when inking comic books and comic strips. India ink is also used in medical applications.
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.
Surfactants reduce the surface tension of the ink; distilled water has a surface tension of 72 dyn/cm (72 × 10 −3 N/m), but the desirable value for ink is between 38 and 45 dyn/cm (38 to 45 × 10 −3 N/m). If the ink's surface tension were too high, then it would not flow through the pen; if it were too low, then the ink would run out of ...
Shellac (/ ʃ ə ˈ l æ k /) [1] is a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. Chemically, it is mainly composed of aleuritic acid , jalaric acid, shellolic acid, and other natural waxes. [ 2 ]
Higgins was the inventor of Higgins American India Ink. [1] He operated the Charles M. Higgins Company to manufacture the drawing ink he invented. [1] Higgins married Alexandra Fransioli in 1899 and they had three children. [1] He was a founding member of the Kings County Historical Society. [1] He opposed vaccination and was also an anti ...
I propose moving this article back to "India Ink", which is where it was in 2006, until somebody moved it apparently in the belief that "India Ink" is "ungrammatical." Google search gives about 5:3 in favor of "India ink", but many of the "Indian Ink" references seem to be to the Stoppard play.Geoffrey.landis 15:02, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Devawriter Pro: software supports Devanagari and Grantha - Linux, Windows and Macintosh versions. Contains a vast lexicon of conjunct consonants. Open Source (i.e. Free). Pada Multilingual software supports Indian languages - Both Windows and Linux versions. Avro Keyboard Unicode-compliant Bangla typing software for Windows, Linux and Ubuntu ...
Chelpark Company Private Limited is an Indian stationery manufacturing company based in Bangalore. Chelpark is one of the oldest manufacturers of fountain pen ink in the country. [ 4 ] " Chelpark" is a portmanteau of "Chellaram" and "Parker".