soot

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  1. noun The fine black particles, chiefly composed of carbon, produced by incomplete combustion of coal, oil, wood, or other fuels.

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  • The tiki torches were covered with soot, and the "good" guest towels, ice buckets and twinkle lights were nowhere to be found. —  LJWorld.com stories: News
  • But environmentalists say the EPA is doing only half its job on soot-laden areas, letting off the hook some southern cities with long-term soot problems, such as Houston, Texas. —  Clipmarks | Live Clips
  • The soot-snow cycle starts when soot, a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, darkens snow it lands upon, which then absorbs more of the sun's energy than clean white snow. —  Signs of the Times
  • It turns out soot, a by-product of burning fossil fuels, is to blame for an average temperature rise of about 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit. —  Popular Science
  • For years FB has contended that airplane soot is a principal cause of regional climate change in the Arctic. —  Fresh Bilge
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  1. Middle English, from Old English sōt; see sed- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English soot, sote, sot, from Anglo-Saxon sōt, also written soot, = Middle Dutch soet = Middle Low German sōt, Low German sott = Icelandic sōt = Swedish sot = Danish sod, soot; = Irish suth = Gael, suith = Welsh swta (perhaps from English) = Lith, sodis, usually in plural sodzei, soot. Cf. French suie, dial. suje = Provencal suia, suga = Catalan sutja, soot, prob. from the Celtic.
  2. from soot, n.
 

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