Methods like the furnace black process or channel black process involve burning hydrocarbon feedstock (like natural gas or oil) with insufficient oxygen, leading to the formation of fine carbon particles (soot), which is collected as carbon black.
How is carbon black obtained ?
Asked in UPSC NDA 1 2018 · Topic: Carbon and Its Various Forms (Amorphous forms of Carbon: Coal, charcoal, coke, lamp black)
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Answer: C. By burning hydrocarbons in a limited supply of air
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