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Webster 1913 Edition
Lampblack
Lamp′blackˊ
,Noun.
[
Lamp
+ black
.] The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers’ ink, and various black pigments and cements.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lampblack
LAMP'BLACK
,Noun.
A fine soot formed by the condensation of the smoke of burning pitch or resinous substances, in a chimney terminating in a cone of cloth.