Soot Sentence Examples

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  • She leaned down; peering through the soot smudged glass on the stove door.

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  • They also tend to leave an oily soot in the chimney.

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  • If the soil is of fair quality the less manure used upon it the better, unless it be soot or lime.

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  • They produce 90 percent less soot than paraffin candles.

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  • Soot forms a good top-dressing; it consists principally of charcoal, but contains ammonia and a smaller proportion of phosphates and potash, whence its value as a manure is derived.

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  • The salt, it appeared, was obtained by simple sublimation from soot.

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  • There is no smoke and no soot released from these products.

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  • The danger is that any heavy build up of soot could catch fire.

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  • Slugs are often destructive to the young shoots, but may be checked by a few sprinklings of soot or lime.

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  • A dressing of soot will keep away these pests.

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  • Inside was a soot blackened room some ten foot square.

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  • This also means that there are no fears of the candle leaving soot marks on walls or decorations.

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  • This means that no smoke or soot is generated.

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  • Wickless candles that carry the Scentsy Authentic seal are soot and flame free candles made with soft wax to maximize fragrance.

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  • The soot and wick free candle wax leaves no mess and no worries about open flame.

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  • This means that there is no soot produced from a burning wick and that there are no safety concerns about having a naked flame in the house.

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  • Soybean candles are clean burning and produce less soot than paraffin candles, and leftover soybean wax is completely biodegradable.

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  • Palm, like soy, is a natural wax and burns cleanly without creating any soot.

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  • Soy candles are said to be cleaner burning and produce less 90% less soot than paraffin candles.

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  • Though seen but once, it helps to wash out State Street and the engine's soot.

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  • Soot To clean up soot, use a vacuum cleaner to remove any loose soot.

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  • The model involves keeping track of the moments of the soot particle size distribution function (PSDF).

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  • Soy burns cleaner, giving off less smoke and creating less soot.

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  • A wickless candle produces no smoke, which means no soot.

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  • Soot that results from a burning candle is due to incomplete combustion.

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  • The soot is actually tiny particles of carbon that did not burn.

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  • If you notice a small amount of black soot in your jar or candle holder once the candle has burned down, this is likely due to the residue left by the burning fragrance oil.

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  • Beeswax candles have very little soot compared to paraffin candles and will burn for a longer period of time.

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  • Someone scrapped away the soot from the license plate sufficiently to read the number thereby confirming what we already knew.

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  • Additionally, soot from faraway sources has darkened snow and ice, further decreasing albedo.

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  • Fresh soot is rather caustic and may be used as a soil fumigant to destroy insects and slugs.

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  • This is true of all woodstoves, but with dirty combustion this contains corrosive creosote and soot as well.

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  • Once used, soot is blown into the flat ruining recent redecoration work.

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  • Soot To clean up soot To clean up soot, use a vacuum cleaner to remove any loose soot.

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  • And the black was centuries of accumulated soot and the white was the contribution from London's pigeons.

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  • The railroad was worked with old engines and ancient carriages always blackened by soot from the journey through the tunnel.

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  • There does not appear to be any ' black soot ' on the leaves.

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  • Gasoline engines produce more carbon monoxide but much less soot than diesel engines.

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  • Beeswax votive candles offer many benefits, such as a sweet, natural scent and less soot or smoke than paraffin candles.

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  • Soy-based candles burn cleaner, with only a trace of the black soot and smoke that can come from other candles.

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  • Then, a dye was prepared - either from the soot that was produced in fires, or from berries or other natural sources.

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  • Homemade tattoo ink is an inferior substitute to professionally manufactured dyes, but that doesn't stop many at-home tattoo enthusiasts from concocting their own formulas from soot and ashes.

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  • Like a glass shower door or sliding glass door, glass fireplace doors are beautiful for their aesthetic value, but can be very difficult to clean once covered with smoke and soot.

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  • If you ignore this important household chore, your family will be breathing in dust, soot, dirt and grime whenever they walk past or sit near the fireplace.

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  • If that's the case, you may want to splurge on a glass door cleaner specifically designed to remove even the most ground in soot.

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  • A Cricket fireplace vacuum cleaner can be a great tool for helping keeping fireplaces and wood burning stoves free from soot and ashes.

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  • Diesel powered trucks and busses are primary sources of airborne soot in the United States.

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  • Cationic surfactants have the ability to neutralize a static electric bond which holds some types of soil (e.g. soot) to fibers.

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  • And the black was centuries of accumulated soot and the white was the contribution from London 's pigeons.

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  • The main source of dust in smokers lungs is carbon soot particles from the burning of tobacco.

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  • However, soot formation is currently poorly represented within fire models.

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  • The soot from the open fires would compound the problems of cleaning.

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  • Amazing Soy Candles & Bath Products Affordable, quality, triple scented, 100% soy candles, cotton wicks, & soot free.

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  • The city looked grim, covered in a mantle of soot, after the erruption of the nearby volcano.

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  • Soy candles produce less soot - that dark, ashy substance that coats walls, ceilings is a particulate matter made up of carbon and is dangerous to human lungs.

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  • The great pest of the tribe is a maggot of the leaf-ruining fly, which may be kept at bay by occasional dustings of soot.

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  • Soy candles produce about 95 percent less soot than paraffin candles.

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  • Because of the lack of soot, soy candles tend to be better for people with asthma or other respiratory problems.

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  • Hang the chandeliers far enough away from the ceiling to eliminate soot marks.

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  • Soy candles burn much cleaner then paraffin candles, producing approximately 90 percent less soot.

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  • Soy wax is a softer medium that burns more slowly and creates a small amount of white soot, which will not be easily visible inside the jar.

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  • Candles made from soy wax distribute scent evenly, produce minimal soot, and last up to 50 percent longer than paraffin candles.

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  • Soy tends to burn cleaner than paraffin, resulting in less smoke and soot.

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  • You do not have to worry about getting black soot all over your hand when you try to light your candle or aggravating asthma or allergies.

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  • Spills can occur when you are manually shoveling soot from your fireplace to an ash can or other receptacle.

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  • This small cleaning appliance can make short work of keeping your fireplace free from ashes and soot.

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  • When acetylene was first introduced as a commercial illuminant in England, very small union jet nipples were utilized for its consumption, but after burning for a short time these nipples began to carbonize, the flame being distorted, and then smoking occurred with the formation of a heavy deposit of soot.

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  • At the onset of soot inception, the PSDF was found to follow a power-law dependence on particle diameter.

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  • Soot blowing is carried out twice weekly, although there are concerns that the steam may accelerate erosion of the boiler tube surfaces.

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  • Burning also releases soot, nitrogen oxides and non-methane hydrocarbons among other harmful compounds.

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  • This research establishes for the first time a direct link between global warming and the soot particles emitted by motor vehicles.

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  • Christmas trees also produce an oily soot which may damage the fireplace.

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  • After some dispute, he was told that he might climb on to the pilot engine which was to precede the royal train; but his scarlet livery, white gloves and wig suffered so much from soot and sparks that he made no more fuss about his rights in after trips.

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  • The soot from this fuel is carefully collected and sold to the sal ammoniac makers, who work only during the months of March and April, for it is only at that season of the year that the dung is fit for their purpose.

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  • Adulterations such as mud, sand, powdered charcoal, soot, cow-dung, powdered poppy petals and powdered seeds of various kinds are easily detected by breaking up the drug in cold water.

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  • From the words of his comrades who saw better than he did, he found that this was the body of a man, set upright against the palings with its face smeared with soot.

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  • After years of use an old chimney can suffer attack from heat and soot deposits that erode mortar joints.

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  • He makes lots of mess while cleaning out the soot from the chimneys of peoples houses.

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  • The most popular types of wax for jar candle making are paraffin and beeswax; hard waxes that burn quickly and create black soot on the inside of the jar.

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  • This is well shown by taking a cylinder one-half full of acetylene and one-half of air; on applying a light to the mixture a lurid flame runs down the cylinder and a cloud of soot is thrown up, the cylinder also being thickly coated with it, and often containing a ball of carbon.

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  • Katie was kneeling beside the stove, her soot smudged forehead wrinkled in a frown as she lit another match.

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  • The pottery consisted chiefly of roughly-made vessels, some of which were of large size, others had holes under the rims for suspension, and many were covered with soot, the result of their use as culinary vessels.

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  • Elba was famous for its mines in early times, and the smelting furnaces gave it its Greek name of A' OaNia ("soot island").

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  • Many compounds containing hydrogen are readily decomposed by the gas; for example, a piece of paper dipped in turpentine inflames in an atmosphere of chlorine, producing hydrochloric acid and a copious deposit of soot; a lighted taper burns in chlorine with a dull smoky flame.

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  • The picture drawn may be a caricature, or a misrepresentation of the fact - as that of the father of Demosthenes, " blear-eyed with the soot of the glowing mass," &c. - but it is, with rare exceptions, realistically conceived, and it is brought before us with the vivid touches of a Defoe or a Swift, or of the great pictorial satirist of the 18th century, Hogarth.

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