ASTM D3053-04a

Standard Terminology Relating to Carbon Black

SCOPE
1.1 This terminology covers a compilation of definitions of technical terms used in the carbon black and rubber industries. Terms that are generally understood or adequately defined in other readily available sources are not included.

General Information

• Status: Historical
• Publication Date: 30-Jun-2004
• ICS: 01.040.83 - Rubber and plastics industries (Vocabularies)
• ICS: 83.040.20 - Rubber compounding ingredients
• Technical Committee: D24 - Carbon Black
• Drafting Committee: D24.41 - Carbon Black Nomenclature and Terminology

Relations

• Replaces: ASTM D3053-04 - Standard Terminology Relating to Carbon Black
• Effective Date: 01-Jul-2004
• Replaced By: ASTM D3053-04b - Standard Terminology Relating to Carbon Black
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004
• Referred By: ASTM D5817-20 - Standard Practice for Carbon Black, Pelleted—Reduction, Blending, and Drying of Gross Samples for Testing
• Effective Date: 01-Jul-2004
• Referred By: ASTM D5596-03(2021) - Standard Test Method for Microscopic Evaluation of the Dispersion of Carbon Black in Polyolefin Geosynthetics
• Effective Date: 01-Jul-2004
• Referred By: ASTM D1765-23a - Standard Classification System for Carbon Blacks Used in Rubber Products
• Effective Date: 01-Jul-2004
• Referred By: ASTM D8466-22 - Standard Guide for Recovered Carbon Black—Carbon Black Test Methods for Testing rCB
• Effective Date: 01-Jul-2004
• Referred By: ASTM D6602-13(2022)e1 - Standard Practice for Sampling and Testing of Possible Carbon Black Fugitive Emissions or Other Environmental Particulate, or Both
• Effective Date: 01-Jul-2004
• Referred By: ASTM D8178-22 - Standard Terminology Relating to Recovered Carbon Black (rCB)
• Effective Date: 01-Jul-2004

Standards Content (Sample)

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Designation: D 3053 – 04a
Standard Terminology Relating to
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Carbon Black
This standard is issued under the fixed designation D 3053; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
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1. Scope Nitrogen Adsorption
D 3265 Test Method for Carbon Black—Tint Strength
1.1 This terminology covers a compilation of definitions of
D 3313 Test Method for Carbon Black—Individual Pellet
technical terms used in the carbon black and rubber industries.
Hardness
Terms that are generally understood or adequately defined in
D 3493 Test Method for Carbon Black—Oil Absorption
other readily available sources are not included.
Number of Compressed Sample
2. Referenced Documents
D 3849 Test Method for Carbon Black—Morphological
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Characterization of Carbon Black Using Electron Micros-
2.1 ASTM Standards:
copy
D 1508 Test Method for Carbon Black, Pelleted Fines and
D 4820 Test Methods for Carbon Black—Surface Area by
Attrition
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Multipoint B.E.T. Nitrogen Adsorption
D 1509 Test Methods for Carbon Black—Heating Loss
D 5230 Test Method for Carbon Black—Automated Indi-
D 1510 Test Method for Carbon Black—Iodine Adsorption
vidual Pellet Hardness
Number
D 5816 Test Methods for Carbon Black-External Surface
D 1511 Test Method for Carbon Black—Pellet Size Distri-
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Area by Multipoint Nitrogen Adsorption
bution
D 6602 Practice for Sampling and Testing of Possible
D 1513 Test Method for Carbon Black, Pelleted—Pour
Carbon Black Fugitive Emissions or Other Environmental
Density
Particulate, or Both
D 1514 Test Method for Carbon Black—Sieve Residue
D 1566 Terminology Relating to Rubber
3. Terminology
D 1618 Test Method for Carbon Black Extractables—
3.1 Definitions:
Transmittance of Toluene Extract
D 1765 Classification System for Carbon Blacks Used in
aciniform, adj—shaped like a cluster of grapes.
Rubber Products
DISCUSSION—The spheroidal primary particles of carbon black are
D 1799 Practice for Carbon Black—Sampling Packaged
fused into aggregates of colloidal dimension forming an aciniform
Shipments
morphology.
D 1900 Practice for Carbon Black—Sampling Bulk Ship-
carbon black, n—an engineered material, primarily composed
ments
of elemental carbon, obtained from the partial combustion or
D 1937 Test Method for Carbon Black, Pelleted—Mass
thermal decomposition of hydrocarbons, existing in the form
Strength
of aggregates of aciniform morphology which are composed
D 2414 Test Method for Carbon Black—Oil Absorption
of spheroidal primary particles, characterized by uniformity
Number (OAN)
of primary particle sizes within a given aggregate and
D 3037 Test Methods for Carbon Black—Surface Area by
turbostratic layering within the primary particles.
DISCUSSION—Particle size and aggregate size (number of particles per
aggregate) are distributional properties and vary depending on the
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This terminology is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee D24 on Carbon
carbon black grade. Transmission electron micrographs shown in
Black and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee D24.41 on Carbon Black
Annex A1 of Practice D 6602 demonstrate that while particle and
Nomenclature and Terminology.
aggregate sizes vary greatly within a given grade of carbon black, the
Current edition approved July 1, 2004. Published July 2004. Originally approved
primary particle size is essentially uniform within an individual
in 1972. Last previous edition approved in 2004 as D 3053 – 04.
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aggregate.
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D 3053 – 04a
DISCUSSION—All carbon blacks provide some level of reinforcement
carbon black agglomerate, n—a cluster of physically bound
when mixed in rubber. The amount of reinforcement is a function of the
and entangled aggregates.
carbon black grade and amount used. See Terminology D 1566 for the
DISCUSSION—See Test Method D 3849.
definition of reinforcement.
carbon black aggregate, n—a discrete, rigid, colloidal mass
carbon black structure, n—the quality of irregularity and
of extensively coalesced particles; it is the smallest dispers-
deviation from sphericity of the shape of a carbon black
ible unit.
aggregate.
carbon black, carcass grade, n—a type of furnace carbon
carbon black, surface activity, n—the inherent ability of the
black having an
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