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Lampblack
Lampblack meaning
An amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks.
Synonyms of Lampblack
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Among artworks on view are early paintings from the 1960s utilizing lampblack pigment—powdered soot created from burning oil–which she rubbed and pushed into her canvases.
Lampblack proved to be outstanding.
Using a fully modulated beam of sunlight as a test signal, one experimental receiver design, employing only a deposit of lampblack, produced a tone that Bell described as "painfully loud" to an ear pressed close to the device.