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  2. Bic Cristal - Wikipedia

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    The BIC Cristal (stylised as BiC Cristal and also known as the Bic Biro) is an inexpensive, disposable ballpoint pen mass-produced and sold by Société Bic of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France. [1] It was introduced in 1950 and is the best-selling pen in the world, with the 100 billionth sold in September 2006.

  3. Bic (company) - Wikipedia

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    Bich soon perfected the design of the ballpoint pen, and the Bic Cristal ballpoint pen became the company's first product in 1950. [6] [7] The Bic Cristal has sold over one hundred billion units since its launch in 1950. [8] Bich formed Société Bic in 1953, [4] and the company was listed on the Paris Stock Exchange in 1972. [9]

  4. Marcel Bich - Wikipedia

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    Marcel Bich bought the patent for the ballpoint pen [5] for US$2 million from Hungarian László Bíró who had been producing such pens since 1943 in Argentina. Using Swiss watchmaking tools, he devised a manufacturing process that produced stainless-steel balls for the tip of the pen, [4] and the Bic Cristal ballpoint pen became his first ...

  5. Talk:Bic (company) - Wikipedia

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    The Bic pen, more correctly titled the Bic Cristal, is possibly the company's best known product. When I think "Bic Pen," I think of the round, white-barrelled Bic White Stic pens, which this OfficeMax page calls "BIC's best-selling pen." I'm sure they outsell Cristals in the U.S., but possibly not in the rest of the world.

  6. Talk:Bic Cristal - Wikipedia

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    The article says that the Bic Cristal has a point size of one millimetre, is this correct? If we are talking about the standard "medium" pen, I would say the line thickness is closer to 0.5, maybe 0.6 mm. The fine version is something like 0.3mm in my experience, but I've not come across a Bic Cristal that draws a line which is 1mm thick.

  7. BIC - Wikipedia

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    Bic Hayes (Christian Hayes, born 1964), English musician Bic Runga (Briolette Kah Bic Runga, born 1976), New Zealand musician Blue Ivy Carter (born 2012), stage name B.I.C., an American singer, daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z

  8. 2Play - Wikipedia

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    Johnson first entered the music scene in 1997 as a UK garage producer, under the aliases Wesley 2 Play and Special T. [2] His first single under the name 2Play, "So Confused", was released in early 2004, and featured Canadian-Indian singer Raghav and MC Jucxi D.

  9. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

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    Bic Cristal Before the 2000s, the Bic Cristal was named "Bic Classic" pen. Prior to the 1990s, "Bic Classic" was referred to simply as the "Bic pen". CSI: Las Vegas Not used before the debut of the spinoff series CSI: Miami in 2002, and CSI: NY in 2004. Curved, curly or smart quotes Straight quotes were made widespread by typewriters.