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Lamp"black` (?), n. [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.


The noun has 1 senses

1. carbon_black, lampblack, soot, smut, crock -- a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

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