Concept in Definition ABC

The ballpoint is one of the instruments of writing most popular that people use toto writeor also to draw, and characterized by having a ink tank and a ball of metal at its tip, which, when it comes into contact with the paper, rotates to just release the ink gradually, fluidly and constancy.

Also know as pen, pen or pen, the ballpoint pen, consists of a metal or plastic tube that is the one that contains the ink inside, in a the small metal ball that regulates the exit of the ink towards the paper or the medium corresponding.
It should be noted that the ink charge is housed inside the tube, insulated, in order to protect it from possible blows and from staining the place where it is.

Now, almost all pens have the following parts: the grey hair or body of it, load or part containing the ink, ball, which is the mechanism that rotates and allows the ink to be loaded and finally to make the line on the support and the ink, which is characterized by being thick and not soluble in the Water.

Other elements with which we can find are: push button, that a mechanism that facilitates the opening of the same, there are also some that are rotated instead of pressed; the clip, which is an element that allows us to hold the pen in our binder or portfolio; and the toecap which is the bottom of the reed.

The ballpoint pen is one of the most mass-produced items and therefore its cost is relatively low.

According to the part of the planet in which you are, you will discover that the pen, in the language Spanish, it is called in various ways... Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay it is called pen and pen, since the latter was the name under which they began to be marketed in the early years of the 1940s. On port and Rico and Panama it is more usual that they are called feather; Meanwhile in Chile, Venezuela and Mexico Some rather informal names are added, such as: pencil paste and pencil; and in Portugal and Brazil as caneta.