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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.
Definition 2024
lampblack
lampblack
English
Alternative forms
- lamp-black
Noun
lampblack (countable and uncountable, plural lampblacks)
- An amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks.
Translations
Verb
lampblack (third-person singular simple present lampblacks, present participle lampblacking, simple past and past participle lampblacked)
- (transitive) To blacken using this form of carbon.