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Crayon

A crayon is a stick of colored wax

Wax

Wax has traditionally referred to a substance that is secreted by bees and used by them in constructing their honeycombs.It is an imprecisely defined term generally understood to be a substance with properties similar to beeswax, namely...
, charcoal

Charcoal

Charcoal is the blackish residue consisting of impure carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances....
, chalk

Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. It forms under relatively deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite plates shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores....
, or other materials used for writing and drawing

Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
. A crayon made of oiled chalk is called an oil pastel

Oil pastel

Oil pastel is a painting and drawing medium with characteristics similar to pastels and wax crayons. Unlike "soft" or "French" pastel sticks, which are made with a gum or methyl cellulose binder, oil pastels consist of pigment mixed with a non-drying oil and wax binder....
; when made of pigment

Pigment

A pigment is a material that changes the color of light it Reflection as the result of selective color absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which the material itself emits light....
with a dry binder, it is simply a pastel

Pastel

Pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation....
. A grease pencil

Grease pencil

The grease pencil, a wax writing tool also known as a wax pencil, china marker, or, in the United Kingdom, chinagraph pencil, is made of colored hardened wax and is useful for marking on hard, glossy non-porous surfaces such as porcelain, glass, polished stone, plastic, Ceramic and other glazed, lacquered or polished surfac...
or china marker (UK chinagraph pencil) is made of colored hardened grease

Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid found in rock formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights, plus other organic compounds....
and is useful for marking on hard, glossy surfaces such as porcelain

Porcelain

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between and ....
or glass

Glass

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A crayon is a stick of colored wax

Wax

Charcoal

Charcoal is the blackish residue consisting of impure carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances....
, chalk

Chalk

Drawing

Oil pastel

Pigment

Pastel

Grease pencil

Petroleum

Porcelain

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between and ....
or glass

Glass

Glass generally refers to a Hardness, brittle, transparency amorphous solid, such as that used for windows, many Glass Bottles, or eyewear, including, but not limited to, soda-lime glass, borosilicate glass, acrylic glass, sugar glass, Muscovite , or aluminium oxynitride....
.

Wax crayons are commonly used for drawing and coloring by children. Crayons are a staple at most schools worldwide. They are easy to work with, not messy (as paint and markers are), blunt (removing the risk of sharp points present when using a pencil or pen), non-toxic, and available in a wide variety of colors.

History

The world's largest manufacturer and inventor of wax crayons is Crayola LLC (formerly Binney & Smith Inc.), the manufacturer of Crayola

Crayola

Crayola is a brand of marking utensils, such as markers, chalk, crayons, and colored pencils manufactured by Crayola LLC . The Crayola company was one of the first to make its crayons, chalk, markers, and colored pencils as well as other writing utensils and artistry tools non-toxic....
crayons, which are made of paraffin wax, a petroleum product. The brand's first box of eight Crayola crayons made its debut in 1903, and was the first non-toxic crayon, aimed at children. The crayons were sold for a nickel and the colors were: black, brown, blue, red, purple, orange, yellow, and green. The word Crayola was created by Alice Stead Binney, wife of Edwin Binney, who took the French words for chalk, craie, and oily, oléagineux, and combined them. The Crayola Factory is located in Easton, PA.

Other brand name crayon manufacturers include Rose Art Industries

Rose Art Industries

Rose Art Industries Inc. is an United Statesn toy company based in Livingston, New Jersey and a major US manufacturer of crayons.The company was established when Isidor Rosen founded the Rosebud Art Company in New York City in 1923....
and Dixon Ticonderoga

Dixon Ticonderoga

The Dixon Ticonderoga Company is an office and art supplies maker from the USA, with headquarters in Heathrow, FL, which offers a number of distinctive brands....
. There are also numerous suppliers who create generic brand

Generic brand

Generic brands of consumer products are distinguished by the absence of a brand name.They are identifed more by product characterstics.They may be manufactured by less prominent companies, or manufactured on the same production line as a 'named' brand....
or store brand

Store brand

Store brands are brands which are specific to a retail store or store chain. The retailer can manufacture goods under its own label, re-brand private label goods, or outsource manufacture of store brand items to multiple third parties - often the same manufacturers that produce brand label goods....
crayons. These are typically found in supermarkets. As part of a crayon convention in Butenseken Sweden, the largest crayon was formed from five million litres of wax.

Art

Some fine arts companies such as Swiss Caran d'Ache

Caran d'Ache (company)

Caran d'Ache is Switzerland manufacturer of high-quality writing instruments, fine art products, and accessories....
manufacture water-soluble crayons. With or without water, once applied to media the crayons' colors are easily mixed.

Oil pastel

Oil pastel

Conté

Cont?, also known as Cont? sticks or Cont? crayons, are a drawing medium composed of compressed powdered graphite or charcoal mixed with a wax or clay base, square in cross-section....
crayons of clay and graphite are used for sketching, particularly in the trois crayons
Trois crayons

Trois crayons refers to a drawing technique using three colors of chalk: red , black, and white. The paper used may be a Artistic tone such as grey, blue, or tan....
style. Antoine Watteau

Antoine Watteau

Jean-Antoine Watteau was a France Painting whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement , and revitalized the waning Baroque idiom, which eventually became known as Rococo....
and Jean-François Millet

Jean-François Millet

Jean-Fran?ois Millet was a French Painting and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the Naturalism and Realism movements....
are noted for using conté in their work.

Crayon

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