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Chalk is a solid. But obviousley when it is like, well, rubbed i guess you could say it because a sort of gas type thing. the second sentence above is wrong.

footnote. Chalk was the name given to the immense deposits of the calcium carbonate remains of tiny sea animals.

The schoolroom chalk is usually made from a base of calcium sulphate (gypsum).

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