Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The black carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in closed vessels.
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Examples
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Figs. 1 and 2 represent a plan and elevation of a bone-black room, containing light filters, A, arranged in a circle around wells, B.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 Various
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The bone-black, in passing through the undulations, is thrown alternately to the right and left until it finally reaches the coolers.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 Various
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In order to purify the substance, it is dissolved in water and treated with bone-black.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various
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-- The following composition is said to bleach all colored liquids, and to render bone-black perfectly unnecessary:
One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed C. A. Bogardus
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We give opposite illustrations of Schreiber's apparatus for revivifying bone-black or animal charcoal.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 Various
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This communication is noticeable, apart from the author's conclusions, for the fact that the processes described were not designed originally for use in gas manufacture, but were first used to purify, or rather to remove the ammonia which is to be found in all factory chimneys, and especially in certain manufactories of bone-black, and in spirit distilleries.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various
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Other black pigments are lamp-black (including carbon black) and bone-black, the former being produced in many grades, varying in price from twopence to half a crown per pound.
Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing William N. Brown
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With an apparatus of the dimensions here described, 120 hectoliters of bone-black may be revivified in twenty four hours, with 360 to 400 kilogrammes of coke.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 Various
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There was no mystery about it; he prepared his canvas with white-lead, gave it a long sun-bath, modelled in bone-black and an earth-red, gave it another bath in the sun, and then glazed.
The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899
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The porous and softer portions of the bones were reduced to pulverized bone-black.
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884
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