Soot in a sentence as a noun

Noise is a problem, but so are bugs and dirt and soot.

HD won't help much if there's a film of diesel exhaust soot on the lens.

That's not soot, most lines have always been electric.

Smoke is little particles of ash and soot that clog up your lungs.

Perhaps the laser is powerful enough to be "self-cleaning" and blast through the soot.

Yes, and ordinary soot is not something you want to have regular contact with.

Diesel has been tainted for at least a generation by memories of the black soot and foul stench of 18-wheelers in summer.

> Instead of making those hard changes like using public transitActually diesel buses make more soot than cars.

Soot in a sentence as a verb

You get carbon nanotubes in ordinary soot, for instance.

In cartoons, very dangerous things are portrayed as being something you can walk away from with only soot on your face or a lump on your head.

I also saw the soot-incrusted facade of the Pittsburgh Carnegie Library before it was sandblasted clean in the late 1980s.

His entire adulthood: painted buildings with lead-based paint, installed asbestos, smoked cigarettes, and lived in Pittsburgh back when the skies were black with soot all day long.

Hey, evolution, that's like when the roofs on the town buildings turned black with soot, and the white birds were more visible to predators and so darker birds were selected and after a few generations all the birds were black.

In UK schools, possibly because it's a nearby example, it is taught that the color of moths in London changed dramatically during the Industrial Revolution because light-colored moths were easy snacks for birds on newly soot-covered walls.

I'm in favor of pretty much anything that can help, but releaseing soot into the atmosphere isn't free, and particulate pollution impacts our health in many other ways, not to mention that the reduction of sunlight has some very well-known effects on plant life.

Soot definitions

noun

a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

See also: lampblack smut crock

verb

coat with soot