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Definition of Bone black
1. Noun. Black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment.
Medical Definition of Bone black
1. Charcoal produced by incomplete combustion of animal tissues, especially bone. Synonym: animal black, bone black, bone charcoal. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bone Black
Literary usage of Bone black
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1895)
"THE chief value of the enormous quantities of bone-black annually used in ...
After the liquid under treatment has run for some time over the bone-black, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"A certain article of merchandise, used to decolorize sugar, and manufactured from
bonee, is held to be "bone-black." subject to a duty of 25 per centum atl ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"Mr. Medlock states that the decolorizing power of bone-black so treated is ...
The absorbed lime of the bone- black being thus converted into chloride of ..."
4. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"At the present time, nearly all the boue which is not used directly as "ivory,"
is converted either into bone-meal or into bone-black for refining sugar; ..."
5. Manual of Chemical Technology by Johannes Rudolf Wagner (1904)
"(2) The quantities of matter absorbed by bone-black of various kinds are —when
reduced ... (4) Bone-black acts the quicker and better the less its capillary ..."
6. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1844)
"Bone-black, ns found in commerce, is very variable in its discoloring power, ...
With regard to the mode of operation of bone black on colored liquids, ..."
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