{"id":22664,"date":"2024-04-21T08:44:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T03:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22664"},"modified":"2025-04-06T21:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:42:43","slug":"key-facts-about-indelible-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-indelible-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts About Indelible Ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Indelible ink<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It contains <strong>silver nitrate<\/strong>. It is a <strong>colourless compound<\/strong> which becomes visible when exposed to <strong>ultraviolet light, including sunlight.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The higher silver nitrate\u2019s concentration, the higher the ink\u2019s quality.<\/li>\n<li>For up to 72 hours after application it can remain resistant to soap, liquids, home-cleansing, detergents, etc.<\/li>\n<li>This water-based ink also contains a solvent like <strong>alcohol to allow its faster drying<\/strong>\u2026 The precise protocol for making this ink including its chemical composition and the quantity of each constituent is, however, not known to many people.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The indelible ink was first manufactured at the Election Commission of India\u2019s request by the government\u2019s Council of Scientific &amp; Industrial Research (CSIR).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mysore Paints &amp; Varnish Ltd.<\/strong> has been licensed to manufacture the ink and has been in the business since 1962.<\/li>\n<li>It is exported to more than 25 countries that include Canada, Ghana, Nigeria, Mongolia, Malaysia, Nepal, South Africa and the Maldives<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Representation of the People Act (RoPA) of 1951mentions the ink<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Section 61<\/strong> states that rules may be made under the Act \u201cfor the marking with indelible ink of the thumb or any other finger of every elector who applies for a ballot paper or ballot papers for the purpose of voting at a polling station before delivery of such paper or papers to him.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Silver nitrate?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula AgNO3. In its solid form, silver nitrate is coordinated in a trigonal planar arrangement. It is often used as a precursor to other silver-containing compounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-politics\/lok-sabha-elections-voting-indelible-ink-9279884\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The story of indelible ink, a lasting symbol of Indian elections, and who makes it<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indelible ink contains silver nitrate. It is a colourless compound which becomes visible when exposed to ultraviolet light, including sunlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}