lampblack

Fine soot collected from incompletely burned carbonaceous materials, used as a pigment and in matches, explosives, lubricants, and fertilizers.

A fine black pigment consisting of particles of carbon, pure or almost pure, used for making paints and ink.

To treat with lampblack; coat with lampblack.

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.

An amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks.

a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink