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Carbon black

A colloidal carbon pigment produced by incomplete combustion; the primary colourant in permanent black gel inks, Indian inks, and archival drawing inks; non-soluble, Raman-active, and analysed by Raman microscopy rather than dye-targeted chromatography.

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