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Definition: Carbon Black |
Carbon BlackNoun1. A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Chemical Industry | Any of various colloidal black substances consisting wholly or principally of carbon obtained usu. as soot and used esp. as pigments. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | E 153 [VE1]. Source: European Union. (references) |
Weather | An amorphous form of carbon, produced commercially by thermal or oxidative decomposition of hydrocarbons and used principally in rubber goods, pigments, and printer's ink. (references) |
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Synonyms: Carbon BlackSynonyms: lampblack (n), smut (n), soot (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Carbon Black |
| English words defined with "carbon black": charcoal ♦ Fixed air, fusain ♦ lampblack ♦ smoke, smoking, smut, soot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "carbon black": BLENDER HELPER ♦ channel process, COREMAKING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ DUSTLESS OPERATOR ♦ gas carbon ♦ HOTHOUSE WORKER ♦ light-absobing carbon ♦ OCR ink ♦ PLANT OPERATOR, CHANNEL PROCESS, PLANT OPERATOR, FURNACE PROCESS, plant-operator helper ♦ RABBLE-FURNACE TENDER, retort carbon ♦ SUPERVISOR, CHANNEL PROCESS, SUPERVISOR, FURNACE PROCESS ♦ UNIT OPERATOR ♦ WAFER-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
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![]() | Moore County, Texas. Dust from carbon black plant.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Sunray, Texas. Bags of carbon black at a plant.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Pampa (vicinity), Texas. Passing a carbon black plant along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Canadian and Amarillo, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Pakistan | Local production of chemicals largely is confined to soda ash, caustic soda, sulfuric and hydrochloric acid, sodium bicarbonate, liquid chlorine, aluminum sulfate, carbon black, acetone and acetic acid. (references) |
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| Country | Name |
| Thailand | Thai Carbon Black Public Company Limited |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
carbon black | 110 |
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| Language | Translations for "carbon black"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | medicinsk kul (activated vegetable carbon(FG)), koenroeg, aktivt kul (activated carbon, activated charcoal, activated vegetable carbon(FG), carbon, decolorizing carbon, decolorizing charcoal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | carbonblack, roetzwart. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kimröökki, hiilimusta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | noir de charbon, noir de carbone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Russ (soot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αιθάλη (smut, soot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nerofumo (lampblack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arboncay ackblay negro de carbono. (various references) negru de fum (monarch, smut). (various references) сажа (grime, smoke-black, smut, soot). (various references) negro de humo (lampblack), negro de carbón, negro carbón. (various references) kolsvart (coal black, jet black, jet-black, pitchblack, pitch-black). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | carbo medicinalis vegetabilis. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-c-c-k-l-n-o-r" | |
-4 letters: caracol. | |
-5 letters: aboral, anorak, balboa, barbal, calcar, canola, carack, carbon, carnal, cloaca, corban. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 62 6F 6E      42 6C 61 63 6B |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100010 01101111 01101110 00100000 01000010 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r b o n   B l a c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0062 006F 006E      0042 006C 0061 0063 006B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678468818023678676977 |
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