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Black carbon

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sootnounFine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
carbon blacknoun(petrochemistry) A fine black powder of amorphous carbon manufactured by the incomplete combustion of natural gas or oil, and used as a pigment in the manufacture of ink and paint. Used as a filler in rubber and rubber-like polymers, it helps prevent deterioration by ultraviolet rays.
black leadnounGraphite, especially as used in pencils.
coal blacknounOf an intensely black colour, like that of coal.
carbonnoun(uncountable) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.
inorganic carbonnounCarbon that is not present as organic compounds; principally carbonate minerals
black fluxnounA mixture of potassium carbonate and charcoal, obtained by deflagrating tartar with half its weight of niter.
coalnoun(uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
animal charcoalnounA fine charcoal prepared by calcining bones in a closed vessel; used as a filtering agent in sugar refining, and as an adsorbent and disinfectant.
graphitenounAn allotrope of carbon, consisting of planes of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal arrays with the planes stacked loosely, that is used as a dry lubricant, in "lead" pencils, and as a moderator in some nuclear reactors.
macrocharcoalnounRelatively large pieces of charcoal in the fossil record
animal blacknounCarbon black derived from burning animal bones or dentin.
carbonitenounA naturally occurring carbonaceous material formed from coal, natural coke.
coal dustnounAlternative form of coaldust. [The dust of coal.]
stone coalnounmineral coal, as opposed to charcoal
charcoalnoun(countable, uncountable) impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
mineral blacknounAn impure carbon used as a pigment.
cenospherenounA porous or hollow carbonaceous sphere-like particle formed during pyrolysis or in the course of the combustion of coal.
carbonadonoun(mineralogy) A dark, non-transparent, impure form of polycrystalline diamond (also containing graphite and amorphous carbon) used in drilling.
carbon resistornouna simple electrical resistor containing carbon granules in a binder

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