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Lampblack
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lampblack'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​l/lampblack.html. 1828.