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gall-nut ink in Spanish

gall-nut ink in Spanish is tinta de agallas.

gall-nut ink in Spanish

tinta de agallas
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
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