For ball-point pens, the tip of the pen is actually made of a ball bearing, and so the tip of the ball-point pen would be a point until it is worn or not manufactured properly, in which case it might be abit flattened.
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'Nib' is the writing point of a pen.
probably something called 'refill'.-A ball point pen will normally have a "refil". An ink Pen with nib will either have a cartridge which fits in side and passes ink to the nib or will have a rubber bulb which sucks up ink from a bottle and is fed to the nib by gravityYou will buy the pen's refill. But some pens will not have refills, so you can't buy it.
I dipped the nib of the pen into the inkwell to write a letter.
needle? The part of a pen that starts with "n" is NIB. The nib is the writing part of the pen.
If the pen nib is not metal it will be not too smooth to write and can cause complications
It's called a Nib.
ball pointAnswer:A proper pen has a nib at its tip, not a ball point. A nib is a steel device which i designed to hold a small reserve of ink either filled by dipping into an ink well or by drawing on a bladder in a fountain pen. The nib is split so that increased writing pressure makes a wider mark on the page. A pen nib may be designed for either cursive writing or calligraphy.
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