Soot
noun
A black powder that is formed when something is burned.
Clean the soot from the fireplace before lighting it.
Often appears as...
- covered in soot
- choke on soot
noun
The black substance that comes out of a chimney when coal is burned.
The white snow was darkened by soot from the factory chimneys.
Often appears as...
- soot emissions
- soot particles
noun
A black powder that is formed when something is burned.
Clean the soot from the fireplace before lighting it.
Often appears as...
- covered in soot
- choke on soot
noun
The black substance that comes out of a chimney when coal is burned.
The white snow was darkened by soot from the factory chimneys.
Often appears as...
- soot emissions
- soot particles
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Cleaning Context
Soot often implies a need for cleaning, as it accumulates on surfaces.
After the campfire, our pots were covered with soot.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Description
Soot is visually striking, being a deep black color that stains.
Her hands were stained with soot after fixing the furnace.
Pro Tip 3/3Combustion Result
Soot is specifically the result of incomplete combustion, often from wood or coal.
The old steam engine left a trail of soot behind it.
Pro Tip 1/3Cleaning Context
Soot often implies a need for cleaning, as it accumulates on surfaces.
After the campfire, our pots were covered with soot.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Description
Soot is visually striking, being a deep black color that stains.
Her hands were stained with soot after fixing the furnace.
Pro Tip 3/3Combustion Result
Soot is specifically the result of incomplete combustion, often from wood or coal.
The old steam engine left a trail of soot behind it.
Pro Tip 1/3Cleaning Context
Soot often implies a need for cleaning, as it accumulates on surfaces.
After the campfire, our pots were covered with soot.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Description
Soot is visually striking, being a deep black color that stains.
Her hands were stained with soot after fixing the furnace.
Pro Tip 3/3Combustion Result
Soot is specifically the result of incomplete combustion, often from wood or coal.
The old steam engine left a trail of soot behind it.
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How long will human...
So odds are our soot will still be here 66 million years from now, easy enough to find for any aliens who care to look. Of course, there's an important difference between us and an asteroid. A space rock has no choice but to follow gravity. We can choose to do differently.
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Is fire a solid, a...
and the color of the light depends on the temperature of the molecules. The hottest flames are white or blue. The type of molecules in a fire can also influence flame color. For instance, any unreacted carbon atoms from the logs form little clumps of soot that rise
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4 ways to make a city...
from the soot of the dark, satanic mills, the planners said, hey, let's move the housing away from the mills. And lifespans increased immediately, dramatically, and we like to say the planners have been trying to repeat that experience ever since.
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How to create cleaner...
and our power our gadgets around the clock. And for 40% of the world, that fuel is cheap, plentiful, and it's called coal. But coal also releases pollutants into the air, like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, soot, and toxic metals, like mercury.
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Rose George: Inside the...
pollute in terms of particles and soot and noxious gases as much as all the cars in the world. And the good news is that people are now talking about sustainable shipping. There are interesting initiatives going on. But why has it taken so long?
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Inside an Antarctic time...
detect an extraordinary number of things we can see the calcium from world's deserts soot from distant wildfires methane is an indicator the strength of Pacific monsoon all wafted on winds from warmer latitudes to this remote from
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The 4 greatest threats...
of a global nuclear war that leads to a nuclear winter, where soot from burning cities blocks out the sun for years, causing the crops that humanity depends on to fail. We haven't had a nuclear war yet,
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Meteor Impact Site PIPE...
fell back to earth many believe that billions of molten particles superheated the air to hundreds of degrees fire swept the planet choking the atmosphere with soot and dust the dinosaurs and most other
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Understanding the colors...
substance over the years he changed his mind he noticed that smoke appeared blue when it passed in front of the black soot inside his fireplace but when he went outside in the daylight and watched
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On Saturn, It Literally...
deeper still the pressures grow so great that these chunks of soot are likely transformed into diamonds but even these
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How long will human...
So odds are our soot will still be here 66 million years from now, easy enough to find for any aliens who care to look. Of course, there's an important difference between us and an asteroid. A space rock has no choice but to follow gravity. We can choose to do differently.
Video examples
Is fire a solid, a...
and the color of the light depends on the temperature of the molecules. The hottest flames are white or blue. The type of molecules in a fire can also influence flame color. For instance, any unreacted carbon atoms from the logs form little clumps of soot that rise
Video examples
4 ways to make a city...
from the soot of the dark, satanic mills, the planners said, hey, let's move the housing away from the mills. And lifespans increased immediately, dramatically, and we like to say the planners have been trying to repeat that experience ever since.
Video examples
How to create cleaner...
and our power our gadgets around the clock. And for 40% of the world, that fuel is cheap, plentiful, and it's called coal. But coal also releases pollutants into the air, like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, soot, and toxic metals, like mercury.
Video examples
Rose George: Inside the...
pollute in terms of particles and soot and noxious gases as much as all the cars in the world. And the good news is that people are now talking about sustainable shipping. There are interesting initiatives going on. But why has it taken so long?
Video examples
Inside an Antarctic time...
detect an extraordinary number of things we can see the calcium from world's deserts soot from distant wildfires methane is an indicator the strength of Pacific monsoon all wafted on winds from warmer latitudes to this remote from
Video examples
The 4 greatest threats...
of a global nuclear war that leads to a nuclear winter, where soot from burning cities blocks out the sun for years, causing the crops that humanity depends on to fail. We haven't had a nuclear war yet,
Video examples
Meteor Impact Site PIPE...
fell back to earth many believe that billions of molten particles superheated the air to hundreds of degrees fire swept the planet choking the atmosphere with soot and dust the dinosaurs and most other
Video examples
Understanding the colors...
substance over the years he changed his mind he noticed that smoke appeared blue when it passed in front of the black soot inside his fireplace but when he went outside in the daylight and watched
Video examples
On Saturn, It Literally...
deeper still the pressures grow so great that these chunks of soot are likely transformed into diamonds but even these
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Quote examples
Alton Brown
American Entertainer
You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
American Politician
When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.
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John Burnside
Scottish Writer
Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.
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Rory McCann
Scottish Actor
I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.
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Terry Zwigoff
American Director
Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it would fall, all the decaying brown brick buildings around where we lived, all this soot all over the place.
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Ernst Zundel
German Activist
Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.
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Melvyn Bragg
English Journalist
We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.
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Frances Beinecke
American Activist
The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.
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Gennady Golovkin
Kazakhstani Athlete
I never went into the mine. But I saw my father and other men coming out, day after day, their faces and bodies covered in soot. It looked very hard and dangerous.
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Joe Dempsie
English Actor
It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly.
Quote examples
Alton Brown
American Entertainer
You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.
Quote examples
Sheldon Whitehouse
American Politician
When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.
Quote examples
John Burnside
Scottish Writer
Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.
Quote examples
Rory McCann
Scottish Actor
I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.
Quote examples
Terry Zwigoff
American Director
Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it would fall, all the decaying brown brick buildings around where we lived, all this soot all over the place.
Quote examples
Ernst Zundel
German Activist
Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.
Quote examples
Melvyn Bragg
English Journalist
We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.
Quote examples
Frances Beinecke
American Activist
The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.
Quote examples
Gennady Golovkin
Kazakhstani Athlete
I never went into the mine. But I saw my father and other men coming out, day after day, their faces and bodies covered in soot. It looked very hard and dangerous.
Quote examples
Joe Dempsie
English Actor
It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly.
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