blacklead

This wax mold was then blackened with very fine blacklead dust.

The ironwork was kept looking fine with blacklead.

Hantzsch and the entire crew found refuge on Blacklead Island.

Whood's drawings include some in chalk or blacklead.

Graphite, also known as "blacklead"

His mother was impressed at the way the man cleaned the twin outside lavatories and polished the blacklead cooker to a mirror finish.

He glanced round warily at his wife, a gaunt, grim-faced woman who was applying blacklead to the grate.

Blacklead may refer to:

The term blacklead has usually been applied to a powdered or processed form, where this fine powder then appears as a matte non-metallic black.

Later used by Europeans, it was known as the Blacklead Island Whaling Station, now a national historic site.

And there was something about a large tortoise stove, freshly done with first-class blacklead and plenty of elbow-grease, that gladdened your eyes.

Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables.

Faber-Castell's Blacklead 9000 range is of particular note, featuring grades of softness from HB to 9B.

When the rugs were beaten I swept the fireplace in the parlour; then I found some blacklead in the pantry, and began to dab at it with that.

On 3rd October 1835, J.S. Staedtler received permission from the municipal council to produce blacklead, red chalk and pastel pencils in his industrial plant.

In 1894 the whaling station on Blacklead Island was purchased by Mr. C. Noble and offered to Peck as an Anglican mission.

Blacklead Island is a Baffin Island offshore islet located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region.

Falconet is best known in England by a set of portraits of eminent artists, drawn in profile in blacklead, with a slight tint of colour on the cheeks; these were engraved in the dotted manner by D. P. Pariset, and also by Burnet Reading.