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to soot
noun
Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
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James E. Hansen of NASA first drew attention to soot as a climate influence in 2000.
By linking the cancer to the sweeps' exposure to soot, Sir Percivall provided arguably the first success for epidemiology, the modern science of establishing the causes of disease.
The agency has found dozens of studies generally concluding that more than 50,000 people die prematurely each year because of illnesses caused by exposure to soot.
In America it is estimated that in 2010, 23,600 premature deaths, and 20 times that many cases of illness, could be put down to soot from coal-fired power stations.
This peak is not connected to soot combustion.
The dark parts on the rocket after launch are due to soot accumulated from the launch.
LIF was assigned to soot precursors and mainly to high-number ring Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH).
The surface oxygen content related to soot oxidation reactivity.
The common long yellow plume, due to soot radiation, vanishes.
Estimated additive-to-soot conversion ratios show high degrees of PAHs transformation to soot for all flames studied.
O2-TPD measurements performed on all samples showed the presence of suprafacial, weakly chemisorbed oxygen only for LaCrO3, which contributes actively to soot combustion.
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