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The Ink Eradicator is a German-designed correction pen produced by Pelikan. It can break down royal blue ink
Ink

An ink is a liquid containing various pigments and/or dyes used for coloring a surface to produce an , writing, or design. Ink is used for drawing and/or writing with a pen, brush or quill....
 without residue. It is also known as Super Pirat and Super Sheriff.

The Ink Eradicator is two sided: it has an erasing tip (which comes in three styles: 850 B, 850 F, and 258 M) and a royal blue correction tip. The 850 B is a broad tip made to erase whole words, whereas the 850 F is a fine tip for erasing letters.






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The Ink Eradicator is a German-designed correction pen produced by Pelikan. It can break down royal blue ink
Ink

An ink is a liquid containing various pigments and/or dyes used for coloring a surface to produce an , writing, or design. Ink is used for drawing and/or writing with a pen, brush or quill....
 without residue. It is also known as Super Pirat and Super Sheriff.

The Ink Eradicator is two sided: it has an erasing tip (which comes in three styles: 850 B, 850 F, and 258 M) and a royal blue correction tip. The 850 B is a broad tip made to erase whole words, whereas the 850 F is a fine tip for erasing letters. The 258 M is a multipurpose tip designed with an angle for different amounts of coverage.

Chemistry of Ink Eradicator

Most common inks are organic dye
Dye

A dye can generally be described as a colored substance that has an Chemical affinity to the Wiktionary:substrate to which it is being applied....
s. Incoming light passes through dye molecules which absorb certain wavelength
Wavelength

In physics, wavelength is the distance between repeating units of a propagating wave of a given frequency. It is commonly designated by the Greek language letter lambda ....
s of light. The rest of the light reflects off the paper. This mechanism works only if the molecule is perfectly flat. Ink Eradicator disrupts this geometry so that light is no longer filtered. The molecules are disrupted by sulfite
Sulfite

Sulfites are chemical compound that contain the sulfite ion sulfuroxygen32- ....
 or hydroxide
Hydroxide

In chemistry, hydroxide is the name for the Diatomic molecule anion OH-, consisting of oxygen and hydrogen atoms, usually derived from the Dissociation of a base ....
 ion
Ion

An ion is an atom or molecule which has lost or gained one or more electrons, giving it a positive or negative electrical charge. According to the Bohr_model this will be from or in the outer shield 'n'....
s binding to the central carbon
Carbon

Carbon is a chemical element with chemical symbol C and atomic number 6. As a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic and tetravalence?making four electrons available to form covalent bond chemical bonds....
 atoms of the dye. The ink is not destroyed by the erasing process, but is made invisible. It can be transformed back into a visible work with aldehyde
Aldehyde

An aldehyde is an organic compound containing a terminal carbonyl group. This functional group, which consists of a carbon atom bonded to a hydrogen atom and double bond to an oxygen atom , is called the aldehyde group....
s.

See also

  • Ink eraser
    Ink eraser

    An ink eraser is an instrument used to remove ink from a writing surface. There are two types: a traditional metal ink eraser, in which the ink is literally scraped off the surface, and the chemically imbibed Ink Eradicator, in which a vinyl eraser is imbibed with a substance that chemically reacts with the ink to remove it....


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