gall-nut ink

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Españoltinta de agallas

Françaisencre de noix de galle

DeutschEisengallustinte Gallustinte

2 more languages

Italianoinchiostro ferrogallico inchiostro metallo-gallico

Portuguêstinta ferrogálica tinta metalogálica

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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See also

gall-of-the-earth Gall-Peters projection gall, nerve Gall. galla gallacetophenone

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