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Crayons and Markers
Crayons and markers are often the first writing implement a child ever has their hands on. Both crayons and markers come in a very wide variety of colors and qualities. Some types can be picked up at the local grocery store, and are responsible for the majority of artwork found taped to fridges. Other varieties are of a much higher quality, and are used by commercial artists to create much more complex work.
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Main substance used to make a crayon?
Its mainly wax with a coloured dye on it but it can sometimes be a soft ink injector (for the expensive ones)
Crayola Crayons were invented by Binney & Smith in 1902.
The first crayons were made from a mixture of charcoal and oil. It was discovered that substituting wax for the oil in the mixture made the sticks sturdier and easier to handle. The Crayons were invented by Binney & Smith in 1902 and first offered to sale the crayon in 1903. We manufacture over 3 billion crayons each year.
Lumber crayons are special industry crayons specially formulated to mark well on wood. Most crayon manufacturers focused on both consumers (school and artists) and industry (lumber, glass, leather, metal). These would most commonly be black crayons but occasionally they would expand the offerings to about four basic colors.
Do you need special paper for oil pastel crayons?
Yes, oil pastel can be used on any paper except for photo paper which has a smooth surface on it, like a poster board on the smooth side.
Use pastel paper or thick paper (thicker the better) anything that has a nice surface on top.
Thin paper tears from blending depending on how much you blend and oil sometimes bleed through the paper from the pastel.
Can markers nontoxic markers kill you?
They are not bad for the epidermis, unless you were to color the area of skin over and over and over. Even if this were to be the case, you're most likely looking at a mild case of dermatitis, but nothing too threatening. In point of fact of this, it takes upwards of a liquid ounce of the fluid to case any type of reaction at all unless you happen to be allergic to propanol, butanol, diacetone, or cresol based alcohols, which are a main ingredient in the marker. The last three are especially noteworthy in that they are industrial grade solvents. You DO NOT want to use King Sized or more industrial intended markers as these mainly contain xylene and cresol, which are quite bad for you in conjunction, but the xylene more so than the other. And lastly, not that it needs to be stated I think, but you NEVER use this ink for tattooing purposes outright!
Where can one purchase a Crayola Crayon Maker?
If you have the older model, you can not get any replacement parts, as they have all been depleted. They do not carry replacement parts for the new models either. I too have the same issue, broken mold for an older model Crayon Maker, and found on the Crayola FAQ that you can't replace parts.
http://www.crayola.com/canwehelp/contact/faq_view.cfm?id=254
When two properties of a crayon will stay about the same after the crayon is melted?
The two properties of a crayon that will stay about the same after being melted is it's color and mass.
It is nice to use a light colored highlighter when marking up a map. If you use a yellow fluorescent highlighter it stands out real well and you can still read all the highway numbers and names of cities, states, etc.
How does the state of matter change during the crayon making process?
At first it was a solid now it is a liquid
