carbon black
noun
: any of various colloidal black substances consisting wholly or principally of carbon obtained usually as soot and used especially in tires and as pigments
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Your car tires contain carbon black to help conduct away any tribocharge buildup.
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Feb. 2025
Chemically too, tire particles are far more complex; composed of a combination of synthetic rubber, natural rubber, carbon black, and a range of additives including steel, zinc and lead.
—Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Kickstarter The campaign has just launched on Kickstarter, where three colors are available – carbon black, metallic blue and gold.
—New Atlas, 8 Dec. 2024
With these problems in mind, scientists from Cornell and Princeton universities set out to see if the carbon black that's already in the plastic could serve as the helper compound.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 25 Nov. 2024
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Feb. 2025
Chemically too, tire particles are far more complex; composed of a combination of synthetic rubber, natural rubber, carbon black, and a range of additives including steel, zinc and lead.
—Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Kickstarter The campaign has just launched on Kickstarter, where three colors are available – carbon black, metallic blue and gold.
—New Atlas, 8 Dec. 2024
With these problems in mind, scientists from Cornell and Princeton universities set out to see if the carbon black that's already in the plastic could serve as the helper compound.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 25 Nov. 2024
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“Carbon black.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carbon%20black. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025.
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