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[syn: carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut, crock]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lampblack \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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lampblack
n 1: a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or
principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments
and ink [syn: carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut,
crock]