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What is the difference between tailor's chalk and blackboard chalk?
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Tailor's Chalk is made from magnesium silicate or Mg3Si4O10(OH)2. Blackboard/ Chalkboard Chalk is made from calcium sulfate or CaSO4. Both were previously made from chalk a form of limestone that is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock composed of calcium carbonate or CaCO3.
Other Names for Tailor's Chalk: Sewing Chalk, Magnesium Silicate, Soapstone, Talc, Slate
Other Names for Chalkboard/Blackboard Chalk: Calcium Sulfate, Gypsum, Gypsum Plaster, Plaster of Paris, Drierite, Alabaster, Anhydrite, Desert Rose
* Tailor's Chalk is used to temporarily mark clothing for alterations.
* Chalkboard/Blackboard Chalk is used for writing and/or drawing on a chalkboard,
blackboard, slate, or enamel board.
* Tailor's Chalk and Blackboard/Chalkboard Chalk are interchangeable though the
method of cleanup varies if the before mentioned chalk is used for it's intended
purpose or another usage.
* Chalkboard/Blackboard Chalk made from calcium sulfate is dust free.
* Chalk Sticks are made from calcium sulfate (calcium & sulphur molecules chemically bound to water) aka gypsum in its dihydrate form (chemical compound containing 2 molecules of water around each CaSO4 group aka calcium sulfate hemihydrate
* Chalk Sticks are made through calcination. Calcination is a treatment process of removing water from a substance or compound in this case calcium sulfate by heating the calcium sulfate to a high temperature that is also below melting or fusing point causing a loss of 50% to 75% of the calcium sulfate's original moisture producing a powder. When water is then added to the powder it rehydrates and quickly hardens.
* Calcium Sulfate predominately comes from Gypsum or Anhydrite though it also occurs as a byproduct of several different chemical processes
* Gypsum or Anhydrite occurs in many locations worldwide as evaporites (a natural salt or mineral sediment deposit left after the evaporation of a body of water)
* Pastels are made from calcium sulfate mixed with clay, oils, & pigment
* Soapstone is a metamorphic rock made mostly of Talc aka Magnesium Silicate
* Soapstone aka slate is what blackboards were first made from though most modern chalkboards are made with steel treated with an enamel
* Chalkboards can be made any color; Blackboards refer to the original blackboards made from soapstone aka slate
* Modern chalkboards are made with tiling grout; one of the main ingredients in tiling grout is Magnesium Silicate same as original Blackboards and Tailor's Chalk
* In early American schools children used a slate aka soapstone pencil to write on personal slate aka soapstone boards. These slate aka soapstone pencils were a cylinder of the rock inside cedar
* Slate pencils were replaced by soft chalk aka calcium carbonate (CaCO3) later replaced by calcium sulfate aka gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O)
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Is sidewalk chalk made out of the same things as blackboard chalk?
YEP!
Who uses a blackboard and chalk?
I am pretty sure it's a teacher.
Explain Why blackboards are not scratched by chalk but by the sand embedded in the chalk?
Blackboards are not scratched by chalk because chalk is softer than the material from which the blackboard is constructed. Sand scratches blackboards because it is harder than the material from which a blackboard is made.
What can use for a making a chalk?
If you mean blackboard chalk, it is generally made of the mineral gypsum, which is calcium sulfate.
Why is chalk used for writing?
Because it's white and easily adheres to the blackboard. (this is physical)
What is the difference between tailor's chalk and a chalk pencil?
TAILORS; when tailors make your clothes,they use that chalk.(it might be erasable) PENCIL; you use it to write your assignments on the paper.
What are drafting?
tailors chalk
What is a piece of slate on which to write on with chalk named after a color?
You write on a blackboard.
What natural resours is in chalk?
Blackboard chalk is composed of calcium carbonate.
Is sidewalk chalk made out of the same things as blackboard chalk?
YEP!
Why is it possible to write on a blackboard with chalk?
Chalk is used on the black board because chalk is easy to write with on a black board.
Is blackboard chalk the same as cliff chalk from the white rock beach in portrush?
No. Blackboard chalk is calcium sulfate, also known as gypsum. Cliff chalk is calcium carbonate, also known as calcite or limestone.
Why it is possible to write on rough black board?
It is easy to write on a rough blackboard. The friction between the chalk and the rough surface is what allows the chalk to leave behind the chalk dust that we see. Actually it would impossible to write on a theoretically smooth blackboard. Without the friction, the chalk would not leave any residue!
What do you write with on a blackboard 5 letters?
Chalk
Is the chalk you find in nature the same as the chalk that you use on the board?
Nature's chalk is limestone--hard. Blackboard chalk is soft--gypsum.
How is commercially-sold blackboard chalk manufactured?
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Is blackboard chalk dangerous?
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