Although plumbago has usurped the name of Black Lead, there is another substance more properly entitled to this appellation, and which may be used in the same way, and with like effects as a pigment.
BLACK LEAD, Plumbago, or Graphite, contains in spite of its name no lead, being simply a species of carbon or charcoal.
Lead pencil, a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead).
A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils.
Black lead, graphite or plumbago, ; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak.
A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc.
A certain quantity of plumbago or black leadis put in along with the shot.
It signifies either a small hair brush employed by painters in oil and water colours, or a slender cylinder of black lead or plumbago, either naked or enclosed in a wooden case, for drawing black lines upon paper.
The iron-coloured bronzing is given by black lead or plumbago, finely pulverized and washed.
Black lead crucibles are made of two parts of graphite and one of fire clay; mixed with water into a paste, pressed in moulds, and well dried; but not baked hard in the kiln.
Wash for preserving Drawings made with Black Lead Pencil, or with hard Black Chalk.
Melt over a slow fire one pound of lard, and half a pound of black lead in powder, stirring them well; remove the mixture from the fire, and stir till cold.
Black lead, therefore, can be used with more convenience and speed than any coloured earth, charcoal, or even ink.
To ascertain how old the use of black lead is for writing might be of some importance in diplomatics, as the antiquity of manuscripts ruled or written with this substance, or of drawings made with it, could then be determined.
Footnote D: The application of plumbago, or black lead, for electrotype purposes, was first made by the late lamented Mr. Robert Murray.
A piece of black lead (so called) may now be taken from a lead pencil and also supported by platinum wire; likewise a bit of common bark charcoal or hard coke.
When the carbon exceeds the iron, as in plumbago, or black lead, it forms a carburet.
Black Lead Crucibles are made of two parts of Graphite and one of Fire Clay, mixed with Water into a paste, pressed in moulds, and well dried, but not baked hard in the kiln.
Take Plumbago (Black Lead) finely pulverized, and put in two ounce wood boxes, nicely labeled, and sell for ten or fifteen cents a box.
The best crucibles are made of a pure fire clay, mixed with finely ground cement of oil crucibles, and a portion of black lead or graphite; some pounded coke may be mixed with the plumbago.
It is ornamented with straight lines drawn in black lead, dividing the surface into quadrants.
The painting never goes farther than marking out the beard and eyebrows with soot or black lead, and sometimes reddening the cheeks with ocher.
One end has a border of black leadon both faces, the other a similar border of red paint, which appears to be red lead.
Both wore little stone whales attached to the breast of the jacket, and one woman and one or two of the men had streaks of black lead on their faces.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "black lead" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
