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.
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
The nib
A nib used to be part of a pen
The tip of nib of the pen has a slit. Because it gets the ink through slit under the capillarity action. In this action ink move through the slit on the nib of the pen. Which makes it to write.
the nib
Telescope
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In my primary schoodays we used dip pens. We had a pen with a nib fixed at the end, and we had to dip the nib into an inkwell after writing a few words ... From time to time the nib wore out and had to be replaced. Fountain pens also have nibs.
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