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You write on a blackboard.
Chalk is used on the black board because chalk is easy to write with on a black board.
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Well you see, as the chalk rubs against the blackboard bits of it get left behind, showing you what your teacher thinks your cursive should look like, or a new trick when dividing big numbers.
With every stroke of the chalk piece it leaves some of the chalk on the board. This abrasion of the piece of chalk causes it to wear down. This is similar to why the rubber tyres of cars wear down when they are driven over a road surface.
You write on a blackboard.
Blackboard chalk is composed of calcium carbonate.
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Chalk is used on the black board because chalk is easy to write with on a black board.
No. Blackboard chalk is calcium sulfate, also known as gypsum. Cliff chalk is calcium carbonate, also known as calcite or limestone.
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Nature's chalk is limestone--hard. Blackboard chalk is soft--gypsum.
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Chalk is a form of calcium carbonate, so chalk dust is also a form of calcium carbonate.
The word for chalk is "craie" and a chalkboard is "tableau noir" (blackboard).