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Sooting

To cover or dress with soot.

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    To cover or dress with soot.

    "to soot land"

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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.
ultraviolet lampnounany source of illumination that emits ultraviolet radiation
encrustationnounAlternative form of incrustation. [The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.]
flue pipenounAn organ pipe that produces sound by passing wind through the windway of a fipple, whereupon exiting, it strikes the labium, causing the air inside the pipe to vibrate.
cauterizationnounThe act of searing organic tissue by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.
spallingnounAny process that spalls a surface, or the damage that results from that process: spallation.
crazingnounA covering of fine cracks on a hard smooth surface such as a glazed object or car exterior.
stipplingnounA stippled pattern.
unburntNot burnt or burned.
oxidisationnoun(British spelling) oxidation
kerfnounThe groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision.
carbonizedHaving undergone carbonization.
thinnersnounSomething that thins or thins out (another thing).
discolorsverb(American spelling) To change or lose color.
transiteTransite originated as a brand that Johns Manville, an American company, created in 1929 for a line of asbestos-cement products, including boards and pipes.
blackheadnoun(countable, medicine) A type of comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
drip pannounpan under a refrigerator for collecting liquid waste
fireboxnounThe part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned.

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