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Carbonless Copy Paper Debris Through the Microscope

Carbonless Copy Paper Debris

This debris was generated by scraping the surface of a carbonless paper form.

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Carbonless copy paper relies on a chemical reaction to produce a color. One side of the sheet of paper is coated with micro-capsules of one reagent and the facing side of the adjacent sheet of paper is coated with the other reagent. Pressure ruptures the micro-capsules and the resulting reaction produces the color copy of the pressure pattern.

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