carbon black

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   a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

   Synonymslampblacksootsmutcrock

   Broadercarbon

Questions about carbon black

What does carbon black mean?

carbon black means "a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink".

What is another word for carbon black?

Close synonyms include lampblack, soot, smut, crock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carbon black a common word?

carbon black is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.