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  2. Colored pencil - Wikipedia

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    A variety of colored pencils. A colored pencil (American English), coloured pencil (Commonwealth English), [1] colour pencil (Indian English), map pencil, [2] pencil crayon, or coloured/colouring lead (Canadian English, Newfoundland English) is a type of pencil constructed of a narrow, pigmented core encased in a wooden cylindrical case.

  3. Pencil - Wikipedia

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    A pencil (/ ˈ p ɛ n s ə l / ⓘ) is a writing or drawing implement with a solid pigment core in a protective casing that reduces the risk of core breakage and keeps it from marking the user's hand.

  4. Color balance - Wikipedia

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    Example of color balancing. Sometimes the adjustment to keep neutrals neutral is called white balance, and the phrase color balance refers to the adjustment that in addition makes other colors in a displayed image appear to have the same general appearance as the colors in an original scene. [4]

  5. Color - Wikipedia

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    Colored pencils. Color (or colour in Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum.Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorption, reflection, emission spectra, and interference.

  6. Color solid - Wikipedia

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    The optimal color solid or Rösch–MacAdam color solid is a type of color solid that contains all the possible colors that surfaces can have. That is, the optimal color solid is the theoretical limit for the color of objects*.

  7. Additive color - Wikipedia

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    The first permanent color photograph, taken by Thomas Sutton, under the direction of James Clerk Maxwell in 1861. Systems of additive color are motivated by the Young–Helmholtz theory of trichromatic color vision, which was articulated around 1850 by Hermann von Helmholtz, based on earlier work by Thomas Young.

  8. Slate (writing) - Wikipedia

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    The writing slate consisted of a piece of slate, typically either 4x6 inches or 7x10 inches, encased in a wooden frame. [1] Split slate was prepared by scraping with a steel edge, grinding with a flat stone and, finally, polishing with a mix of slate powder in water.

  9. Sieve analysis - Wikipedia

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    A sieve analysis (or gradation test) is a practice or procedure used in geology, civil engineering, [1] and chemical engineering [2] to assess the particle size distribution (also called gradation) of a granular material by allowing the material to pass through a series of sieves of progressively smaller mesh size and weighing the amount of material that is stopped by each sieve as a fraction ...