Word: inkstand
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...simple mode of preventing ink from damaging metallic pens, is to throw either into the inkstand or the bottle in which the ink is kept, a few nails, broken bits of steel pens (not varnished) or any other pieces of iron not rusted. The corrosive action of the acid contained in the ink is expended on the iron introduced...