Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by function]
6. colorant (material)
7. pigments
8. [pigment by color]
9. black pigment
10. organic black pigment
11. carbon black

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials
4. materials
5. materials by origin
6. biological material
7. plant material
8. modified plant material
9. charcoal

Narrower term/s

• ivory black[+]
  • Paris black (material)
• drop black

Anotations

Scope note:

Material created by charring animal bones, black in color. Bone black is composed of about 10% carbon and 84% calcium hydroxyapatite along with smaller amounts of magnesium phosphate and calcium carbonate. It is used primarily as a pigment and as a decolorizing and deodorizing agent. As a stable blue-black pigment, it is dense and has a good working quality for oil paints and watercolors. It is also used in engraving inks and as a decolorizing agent for refining sugars and syrups.