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Meaning of gall-nut ink | Babel Free

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

Deutsch Eisengallustinte Gallustinte
Español tinta de agallas
Français encre de noix de galle
Italiano inchiostro ferrogallico inchiostro metallo-gallico
Português tinta ferrogálica tinta metalogálica

CEFR level

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

See also

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

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