(1) The firm bought and sold fancy goods, sheet iron, iron and brass nails, slate boards and other slate products, lampblack and resin, and children's toys made of wood and papier-mache.(2) Indian or Chinese ink is essentially lampblack (carbon ink) which is mixed with gum and resin and hardened by baking.(3) Mr Seracini said Da Vinci created the under-drawing as an underpainting because he used a brush and a mixture of lampblack and watery glue.(4) The vast majority of black pigments consist of finely divided particles of carbon-carbon black or lampblack .(5) Until recent times, scriptures were inscribed on these flat, oblong leaves using a stylus and lampblack .
