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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The trade-name of a very fine lampblack, almost absolutely pure carbon, made in Ohio by the smothered combustion of natural gas: used in the preparation of printers' ink.
- noun A mordant acid coal-tar color of the disazo type, derived from salicylic acid.
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