lamp·black (l mp blk )n. Fine soot collected from incompletely burned carbonaceous materials, used as a pigment and in matches, explosives, lubricants, and fertilizers. Also called blacking. |
lampblack [ˈlæmpˌblæk]
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(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) a finely divided form of almost pure carbon produced by the incomplete combustion of organic compounds, such as natural gas, used in making carbon electrodes and dynamo brushes and as a pigment
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| Noun | 1. |  lampblack - a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and inkatomic number 6, carbon, C - an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds |
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