Why does newsprint make your hands black while other papers don't?

Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper.

 
Charles Mims
http://www.the-sandbox.org
 
 
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