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

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

From Literature

"Golda," said Meir, "is it not frightful for you in this solitary cabin, when the long fall and winter drop black darkness over the earth, and great winds enter through the walls and moan about the house?"

From Project Gutenberg

Mix, therefore, some "lamp" or "drop" black in powder with thin glue-water, boil, and lay the mixture on with a stiff brush over the case whilst warm.

From Project Gutenberg

And how their leaves would drop, black and shrivelled, a black harvest to strew the lawn.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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