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Soot

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smutnoun(uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
lampblacknounAn amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks.
carbon blacknoun(petrochemistry) A fine black powder of amorphous carbon manufactured by the incomplete combustion of natural gas or oil, and used as a pigment in the manufacture of ink and paint. Used as a filler in rubber and rubber-like polymers, it helps prevent deterioration by ultraviolet rays.

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lampblacknounAn amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks.
carbon blacknoun(petrochemistry) A fine black powder of amorphous carbon manufactured by the incomplete combustion of natural gas or oil, and used as a pigment in the manufacture of ink and paint. Used as a filler in rubber and rubber-like polymers, it helps prevent deterioration by ultraviolet rays.
smutnoun(uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
ashesnoun(attributively) the Ashes
ashnounSolid remains of a fire.
carbonnoun(uncountable) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.
smokenoun(uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
cigarettenounA small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.
tobacconoun(uncountable) Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
foolnoun(derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
ryennoun
black carbonnounElemental carbon in the form of very fine graphite particulates, a major component of soot.
charnoun(computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
charcoalnoun(countable, uncountable) impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
residuenounThat which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.
filthnounDirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
crudnoun(uncountable) Dirt, filth or refuse.
dirtnoun(chiefly US) Soil or earth.
cindersnoun(geology, plural only) Fragments of lava; scoria.
grimenounDirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.

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