gall-nut ink
gall-nut ink · gall-nut inks
Eisengallustinte, Gallustinte
Acid blue-to-black ink, blue or purple when fresh, but turning intense black from iron…Acid blue-to-black ink, blue or purple when fresh, but turning intense black from iron oxidation, containing iron ions and tannic acids obtained from crushed gall-nuts and a solution of gum, or glue, and copperas, slowly replaced carbon ink and used from late antiquity to 20th century
Meaning
1 sensesAcid blue-to-black ink, blue or purple when fresh, but turning intense black from iron oxidation, containing iron ions and tannic acids obtained from crushed gall-nuts and a solution of gum, or glue, and copperas, slowly replaced carbon ink and used from late antiquity to 20th century
Eisengallustinte, Gallustinte
Translations
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By meaning 1
ink obtained from crushed gallnuts:
Forms
plural: gall-nut inks| Singular | gall-nut ink |
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Synonyms
8 synonymsiron-gall inkgall nut inkgallnut inkiron gall inkoak-gall inkoak gall inkstandard inkcommon ink