FreeShip- Lamp Black, Warm Tone Black, Very Fine Particle Size- (Prompt rebate on orders with 3 or more FreeShip items!)

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Please note this is a raw pigment intended to be dispersed into a liquid medium to make paints. Our raw pigments are not meant for use in cosmetics and are not cosmetic grade. Certain pigments disperse more easily than others in certain liquid mediums. For those difficult to disperse into a liquid of your choice, they will need to be ground by a muller or a mortar and pestle into the medium.

Safety note: Handle all dry pigments with care. Work slowly to avoid generating airborne dust and wear a dust mask for extra protection. Also avoid getting the dust all over your hands. Latex gloves are good at providing skin protection without "getting in the way".

This is "Lamp Black", also referred to as "Carbon Black" It's a very concentrated black and a very light and fluffy powder with very small particle size. It's basically refined soot. Best to work with it slowly and carefully, not spilling or getting it airborne. It can get very messy if you're not slow and steady when dispensing it. Concentrated lamp black is pretty expensive.
"Lampblack" and "Carbon black" are terms that are often used interchangeably for the same or similar material. Both are amorphous forms of carbon made from incompletely burned (or "incomplete combustion of") organic matter. Both have the same CAS number (1333-86-4), both are included as synonyms for the same black pigment in almost all definitions of "carbon black".

The Wiki article on it (carbon black) is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_black#Pigment
"Carbon black is the name of a common black pigment, traditionally produced from charring organic materials such as wood or bone. It appears black because it reflects very little light in the visible part of the spectrum, with an albedo near zero. The actual albedo varies depending on the source material and method of production. It is known by a variety of names, each of which reflects a traditional method for producing carbon black:
Ivory black was traditionally produced by charring ivory or bones (see bone char).
Vine black was traditionally produced by charring desiccated grape vines and stems.
Lamp black was traditionally produced by collecting soot, also known as lampblack, from oil lamps.
All above types of carbon black pigments were used extensively in painting since prehistoric times Painters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Dyck, but also more recently Cézanne, Picasso and Manet employed them in their paintings. A typical example is Manet's "Music in the Tuileries", where the black dresses and hats of the men are painted in ivory black.
Newer methods of producing carbon black have superseded these traditional sources, although some materials are still produced using traditional methods. For artisanal purposes, carbon black produced by any means remains a commonly used item."
The largest user of carbon blacks by far is the rubber (tire) industry.

Since our shop has a specific Lamp Black and Carbon Black, I evaluated the 2 blacks side by side. Here's the differences and similarities I saw:
OBSERVATIONS COMPARING OUR LAMP BLACK AND CARBON BLACK:
COLOR:
A small pile of LB is a warmer black, an overall lighter black with gray/brown undertones when placed next to the CB.
A small pile of CB is a blacker, cooler black than LB.
When a small amount of each is smeared on uncoated printer paper to give variable tones from very dark black to a very light gray, there was no noticable difference between the two smears (to both members of our shop). This is somewhat surprising, given that piles of the 2 pigments vary in color quite noticeably.

POWDER PROPERTIES:
A small pile of LB is light and fluffy, "looser", with very few clumps.
A small pile of CB is also light and fluffy but tends to have a few small clumps.
On glass, both blacks can be spread out into even areas of non-clumped sparse particles. However, the LB is more easily spread out and "separated" from clumped areas than the CB.
They both appear to have the same density.
When a small polished spoon is pressed into a small pile of LB, the powder does not agglomerate or compress into a surface reflecting the shape of the spoon. There is little or no cohesion between particles or clumps of particles.
Whe the same spoon is pressed into a small pile of CB, the powder does compress into a surface that is a smooth mold of the shape of the spoon. The powder particles have self-cohesion.

PARTICLE SIZE AND AGGREGATION VIEWED UNDER A MICROSCOPE:
Under the microscope both CB and LB have equally small particles separated by larger clumped areas.
The CB has slightly more of the smallest particles, and so in general it is a "finer" mesh size than the LB. Particle size is way less than the 50 micron crumb rubber that provides a known numerical size. From reading about CBs and LBs the size is probably about 20 to 40 nm (1 micron equals 1000 nanometers). (Note: the microscope is able to discern particles as small as 0.1 microns (100 nm) so the size observation has to be considered not as individual particles but groups of very small particles. The conclusion that the two blacks have equally small particles may not be correct).

Here is some more information that applies to Lamp Black and Carbon Black:
http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Carbon_black
"Carbon Black pigments have been used since ancient times. The carbon is collected as the charcoal residue, or in the case of Lamp Black, as the smoke residue. Carbon Black is usually a fine, soft, black powder, but some blacks contain mineral impurities and tarry hydrocarbons that give it a bluish, reddish or brownish tinge. It is very stable and unaffected by light, acids and alkalis. It absorbs ultraviolet radiation and has very good hiding properties. Carbon Black has poor drying properties in oil paints, but is commonly used in printing and lithograph inks and in Chinese ink sticks. In industry, Carbon Black is used as a filtration material and a filler/pigment in coatings, rubber, plastics, paints, carbon paper, and crayons. As a filler, Carbon Black increases resistance to abrasion and adds electrical conductivity. About one fourth of the weight of a standard automobile tire is Carbon Black."

This is from Wikipedia and lists the "Color Index Name Code" numbers (ie "Pigment Black 7", or "PBk7") for blacks from various sources { https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black } :
"CARBON PIGMENTS:
Carbon Black (PBk7)
Ivory/Bone Black (PBk9)
Vine Black (PBk8)
Lamp Black (PBk6)"-

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Reviews

Reviews (39)

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Oct 15, 2024

Fast shipping, good lamp black.

Greg Henrikson

Jun 8, 2024

Just as described and pictured and arrived quickly

Rosalina Hansen

Mar 27, 2024

Good product. I am happy.

Amber Harrell

Mar 24, 2024

exactly what i needed. soft, black, fine grain, ready to go. gonna make some ink out of this

whalesofjupiter

Mar 19, 2024

Everything as stated, fast shipping, thank you so much!

Lyle Dechant