Carbon black is fine powder made from incomplete combustion of carbonaceous materials (mainly of Petroleum). It's pure black beads or powder. The color strength, fineness, gravity are all varied with the change of raw materials and processing methods.

Carbon black is not dissoluble in water, acid, alkali but can be burned into CO2 in the air. The main element of carbon black is carbon, while including a very small volume of hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, ash, tar and water.

The statistic of 2005 showed that the global output of carbon black is almost 8 million metric tons. 90% are for rubber-reinforcing application of rubber products and motor tires. The rest part about 10% is for applications of printing inks, plastics and paints, which are performed as pigments and named as pigment carbon black or say, coloring Carbon Blacks.