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96 Things That Are Black

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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 Foods

Foods 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 Animals

Black 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 Things

Other 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 Materials

Materials that are black or often black including minerals, gems, metals, woods and manufactured materials such as ceramics.

Other Black Things

Other 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.

What is the most iconic black thing that best symbolizes the color?



Black Cats
91 votes
Night
18 votes
Blackberries
40 votes
Blackbirds
15 votes
Coffee
22 votes
Black Leather
6 votes
Coal
4 votes
Black Velvet
2 votes
Chocolate
0 votes
Space
0 votes
Cola
0 votes
Chess Pieces
0 votes

Summary

Things 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.
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