lampblack

English

Alternative forms

• lamp-black

Etymology

From lamp +‎ black.

Noun

lampblack (countable and uncountable, plural lampblacks)

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

Translations

form of carbon

• Finnish: noki (fi)
• French: noir de fumée (fr) m
• Ido: fumonigro (io)
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• Irish: smúrabhán m, dubh súiche m
• Latin: fūlīgō f

Verb

lampblack (third-person singular simple present lampblacks, present participle lampblacking, simple past and past participle lampblacked)

1. (transitive) To blacken using this form of carbon.