SINCE 1828
bone black
nounDefinition of bone black
: the black residue chiefly of tribasic calcium phosphate and carbon from bones calcined in closed vessels used especially as a pigment or as a decolorizing adsorbent in sugar manufacturing
— called also bone char
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