Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gall-nut ink

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.17 in modern English

Syllables: gal-l-nut ink
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Inflected Forms

gall-nut inks (plural)

Synonyms

gall nut ink gallnut ink iron-gall ink iron gall ink oak-gall ink oak gall ink standard ink common ink

Questions

What does gall-nut ink mean?: 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

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