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bone black

  • a variation of boneblack.
    boneblack
    noun
    a black, carbonaceous substance obtained by calcining bones in closed vessels, used as a black pigment, a decolorizing agent, etc.

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Painted with only cobalt blue, permanent green, bone black and titanium white — along with some orange for the first and last of the series — they have an eerie effect.

From New York Times Aug. 4, 2021

The Rams pieces were in a mix of royal blue, bone, black or white and featured Old English fonts, vivid graphics and a variety of team masks.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2020

They both painted in contrasting dark and light hues, favoring palettes of darker, earthy pigments: bone black, ocher, umber, siennas and lead white.

From New York Times Oct. 22, 2019

The railways transported thousands of tons of bones to the Michigan Carbon Works, in Detroit, which produced four thousand tons of bone ash and five thousand tons of bone black in one year.

From The New Yorker May 13, 2016

There are two methods of ascertaining the temperature of the red-hot bone black by means of the pyrometer: First, by inserting the tube of the instrument into the black.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various

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