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Pott suggested that chimney soot contained carcinogens that could cause the growth of the warts seen in scrotal cancer.
According to Meech, a number of Japanese dealers went him one better, and aged prints by steeping them in tea or a solution of soot and water.
He was taller, much taller, and no longer covered in soot like he had been during his days as a chimney sweep.
When your chimney is swept, the sweep will use the amount of soot he removes as a guide to often the chimney needs cleaning.
Then we'll spend the rest of the day removing the thin coating of soot over everything in the kitchen.
Aside from the structural collapse, there was considerable soot damage from fire, especially on the upper floors.
She met Aaron's gaze and batted her lashes in what he supposed was meant to be a come-hither look, but seemed more like soot caught in her eyes.
Surrounded by concentric bands of dark soot, these podlike forms suggest seed casings.
All her pails, rags, and brushes were over there, along with copious supplies of soot.
Chicxulub drill cores reveal that the target rocks contain hydrocarbons, the vaporization of which could produce soot.
Frighteningly, some ninnies actually advocated melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot.
The underground was filthy, marking his pale skin with soot and city grime.
The gradual accumulation of soot can seriously affect the way your chimney performs.
National levels of ozone and soot are down, as are emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide, key components of smog and acid rain.
Most candles contain paraffin, a petroleum-based wax that produces black soot when burned.
Because it is a lot cheaper to reduce soot emissions than to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
What impact, if any, does soot and black carbon from fires have on the glaciers of Kilimanjaro?
The buckytube was accidentally discovered in the resultant soot left behind from an electrical discharge between two carbon electrodes.
The latter provides the oxygen required to combust the soot particles and is completely reduced to nitrogen oxide in the process.
With regard to soot or debris, these would be noticeable on the dipstick or through your sense of touch.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In making this tattooing-ink the soot from fires of white-pine wood was used.
The dust and soot drift in and settle on our clothes, and grime our hands and face.
A constant sense of gloom is settled like a pall over the whole building, blacker even than the soot and grime which encrust it.
Sometimes it resembled a spiders web in appearance, sometimes soot deposited in the cavities of the scoria.
In summer apartments and in exedrae where there is no smoke nor soot to hurt them, they should be made in relief.
It was bone-black, which cannot be told from lamp-black or soot by the uninitiated.
Every hand but his was black with soot, and his was guiltless of the smirch of Hooniah's pot.
There are three dabs of soot on your face and your hair is all over the place.
He contrived, with some oil and the soot of his lamp, to fabricate a sort of ink.
And I rubs my hand on the wall where he got over, and there was soot on it, and no mistake.
Nothing, however, appeared to have been touched or disturbed, and there was no soot on the floor.
We took out the damper and poked out all the soot and ashes.
Last year we put in place the toughest-ever controls on smog and soot.
But to zip's dismay, the soot would not come off as the mud and dough had.
The dense smoke from the fire deposited a thick soot on the karamu sticks.
The smell of the woods is like heaven, after soot and smoke and coal gas.
Tom Kitten took another big jump off the bar, and landed on a ledge high up inside the chimney, knocking down some soot into the fender.
The button of soot has vanished into the limbo of superseded inventions.
Yet for all the growing body of evidence of its impact, soot remains a pestilentially difficult substance to study.
The gas had left what appeared to be like a daub of soot on the ceiling.
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