drop black

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.

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Example Sentences

The young bucks drop black bean sauce or sriracha on and fold it like a taco.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2019

A towering cliff stood behind them, a sheer drop, black and faceless.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

A good weathered oak stain may be made by mixing a little drop black ground in oil with turpentine and a little linseed oil.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)

To produce such a stain take 1 lb. of drop black in oil and 1/2 oz, of rose pink in oil, adding a gill of best japan drier, thinning with three half-pints of turpentine.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)

Tallow and "japan drop black" mixed, and apply while stack is hot, with an occasional rubbing over with the same, will remain bright a long time.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 by Various