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Bone black   /boʊn blæk/   Listen
Bone black

noun
1.
Black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment.  Synonyms: animal black, animal charcoal, bone char.





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... Purified.—The residuum from which vaseline is made is placed in settling tanks heated by steam, in order to keep their contents in a liquid state. After the complete separation of the fine coke it is withdrawn from these tanks and passed through the bone black cylinders, during which process the color is nearly all removed, as well as its ...
— Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 • Barkham Burroughs


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