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lamp-black

lamp-black is the alternative form of lampblack.

Meaning of lampblack

Noun

lampblack (countable and uncountable, plural lampblacks)

  1. An amorphous form of carbon made from soot (incompletely burned organic matter); used to make pigments and inks.
    • This Messrs. Greener and Straite allege they have effected by taking a quantity of lampblack or powdered charcoal, or of powdered coke, and which has been purified, by the action of electricity from sulphur and any other mixtures, and digesting the same in diluted nitro-muriatic acid.1846, editorial staff, “CHEMISTRY”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 102

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Forms of lamp-black

plurallamp-blacks

Questions about lamp-black

What is lamp-black the alternative form of?
Lamp-black is the alternative form of lampblack.

Words near lamp-black in the dictionary

  1. lamp posts
  2. lamp room
  3. lamp rooms
  4. lamp shell
  5. lamp shells
  6. lamp-black
  7. lamp-bulb
  8. lamp-bulbs
  9. lamp-iron
  10. lamp-irons
  11. lamp-oil

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