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Black is the color that is perceived with the full absorption of light. This includes things that lack light such as the night or outer space and materials that absorb light. Black is a common color in nature if you consider that space, night and shadow are black. Animals and insects are often black. In some cases, this may act as camouflage, particularly at night. It is common for things to be designed to be black as it is considered an attractive color. For example, black metals and flowers that have been specifically engineered for a black or close-to-black color. Naturally black materials include obsidian, ebony wood and carbonado. The following are common examples of black things.
Ants | Ashes | Asphalt | Bears | Beetles | Black Beans | Black Caimans | Black Canary Potatoes | Black Cats | Black Corn | Black Diamonds | Black Earth | Black Flies | Black Garlic | Black Holes | Black Leather | Black Opal | Black Orchids | Black Pearls | Black Plums | Black Rice | Black Roosters | Black Roses | Black Sapphires | Black Soybeans | Black Spinels | Black Squirrels | Black Steel / Black Stainless Steel | Black Swan | Black Titanium | Black Tulips | Black Velvet | Black Velvet Petunia | Black Vultures | Black Walnut (wood) | Black Widows | Blackberries | Blackbirds | Blackboards | Bugs | Carbon | Carbonado | Cast Iron | Caviar | Charcoal | Chess Pieces | Chia Seeds | Chocolate | Coal | Coffee / Coffee Beans | Cola | Common Grackles | Cormorant | Cows | Crows | Damascus Steel | Dogs | Dried Figs | Ebony Wood | Eyes | Formal Wear | Gorillas | Grapes | Hair | Ink | Jet | Licorice | Melanite | Night | Obsidian | Oil | Olives | Onyx | Orca | Panthers | Penguins | Pepper | Piano Keys | Prunes | Raisins | Ravens | Rubber | Sand | Sesame | Shadows | Smoke | Soot | Soy Sauce | Space | Sunglasses | Tar | Tasmanian Devils | Tea / Tea Leaves | Tires | Wenge Wood | Zirconium |
Black FoodsFoods and beverages that are characteristically a black color. This includes berries such as blackberries that are actually a very dark purple. Likewise, coffee and tea can be perceived as black but are more of a very dark brown.Black AnimalsBlack animals include mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and insects. This is often viewed as an adaption related to thermoregulation whereby black colors readily absorb light from the sun. For this reason, some animals develop darker hair or feathers in the winter. It is also possible for black colors to serve as camouflage, particularly at night.Natural Black ThingsOther natural things that are black, beyond the animals and foods above. This includes a variety of flowers and minerals. Natural black things also include oil, coal, tar and elements related to fire such as soot and smoke.Black MaterialsMaterials that are black or often black including minerals, gems, metals, woods and manufactured materials such as ceramics.Other Black ThingsOther things that are famously black including natural environments, elements of myth and legend, fashion items and symbolic uses of black color such as a black belt in martial arts.SummaryThings that are black include foods, animals, minerals and other naturally black things. They also encompass things that are traditionally black for cultural reasons such as formalwear or a black belt in martial arts.Next read: Black Color
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