bone·black

also bone black (bōn′blăk′)

A black pigment containing about 10 percent charcoal, made by roasting bones in an airtight container and used in polishes, as a filtering medium, and in decolorizing sugar. Also called bone charcoal.

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bone black - black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment

animal black, animal charcoal, bone char

char - a charred substance

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From such things as feet, knuckles, hide clippings, and sinews came such strange and unlikely products as gelatin, isinglass, and phosphorus, bone black, shoe blacking, and bone oil.

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The drawings accompanying Highstein's forged steel and concrete sculptures in the show are done with bone black pigment and Chinese ink.

A homage to Jene Highstein

Indeed, in the bone black, the collagen forms a coke that is intimately mixed with hydroxyapatite [Ca.sub.5](OH)[(P[O.sub.4]).sub.3], which consequently could be considered a clue for its identification.

The Bone Black Pigment Identification by Noninvasive, In Situ Infrared Reflection Spectroscopy

bell hooks: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984); Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (1989); Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (1996); Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice (2013).

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In order to taste the food they denied me for days in their righteous need to have me tamed, I--although their porridge and chops were like dead leaves in my mouth and their drear puddings, plaster (I'd have preferred a fistful of furor last winter's bone black with frost and green with neglect)--I cried out from the cellar and up through the floor boards as best I could:

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We now offer a cosmetic grade of bone black pigment, listed as D & C Black No.

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