Sidewalk Chalk Pink

Sidewalk chalk

Sidewalk chalk is typically large and thick sticks of chalk made of calcium sulfate (gypsum), instead of calcium carbonate. It comes in multiple colors and is mostly used for drawing on pavement or concrete sidewalks, frequently four square courts or hopscotch boards. Blackboard chalk, typically used in educational settings, is shorter and thinner than sidewalk chalk.

Sidewalk

A sidewalk, pavement or footpath is a footpath along the side of a road or street, designed primarily for pedestrians and low-speed personal transporters such as mobility scooters and postal NEVs. Sidewalks are usually paved by concrete, pavers, bricks, tiles, stones or asphalt, and are normally slightly elevated from the roadway and separated from motor vehicle lanes by a curb or gutter. There may also be a planted strip between the sidewalk and the roadway and between the roadway and the adjacent buildings, land lots and private properties.

Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed under the sea by the accumulation and lithification of hard parts of organisms, mostly microscopic plankton, which had settled to the sea floor. Chalk is common throughout Western Europe, where deposits underlie parts of France, and steep cliffs are often seen where they meet the sea in places such as the Dover cliffs on the Kent coast of the English Channel.

Pink

Pink is a pale tint of red or rose, the color of the pink flower. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. A combination of pink and white is associated with innocence, whereas a combination of pink and black links to eroticism and seduction.

sidewalk

Noun

1. A paved footpath located at the side of a road, for the use of pedestrians.
2. Any paved footpath, even if not located at the side of a road.

chalk

Noun

1. A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
2. A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO4), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).

Verb

1. To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
2. To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.

pink

Noun

1. A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
2. Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.

Adjective

1. Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
2. Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.