The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.

One of the native colors, lampblack is a deep black made from nearly pure carbon (containing some oil and tar impurities).

a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink