thick with soot

  • 1Wood soot — Wood Wood, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG. witu, Icel. vi?r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir. & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.] [1913 Webster] 1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; frequently …

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  • 2industrial glass — Introduction       solid material that is normally lustrous and transparent in appearance and that shows great durability under exposure to the natural elements. These three properties lustre, transparency, and durability make glass a favoured… …

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  • 3Chimney sweep — Chimney sweeper redirects here. For the geometer moth, see Odezia atrata. Chimney sweep in the 1850s A chimney sweep is a worker who clears ash and soot from chimneys. The chimney uses the pressure difference caused by a hot column of gas to… …

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  • 4Oil lamp — Neolithic stone lamps in Thousand Lamp Museum in Qiandeng town of Kunshan …

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  • 5Brown bear — Temporal range: Late Pleistocene – Recent A Kodiak bear (U. arctos middendorffi) in Katmai National Park, Alaska Conservation status …

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  • 6Cana Island Light — Infobox Lighthouse caption = location = Near Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin coordinates = coord|45|05|18|N|87|02|48|W|region:US type:landmark yearlit = 1870 automated = 1945 yeardeactivated = foundation = Dressed Stone construction = Cream City brick… …

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  • 7Cuyo, Palawan — Cuyo   4th class municipality   The Quiniluban island group, in the extreme north of the Cuyo archipelago …

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  • 8Stimson House — Infobox nrhp2 | name =Stimson House nrhp type = caption = Stimson House, 2008 location= Los Angeles, California lat degrees = 34 lat minutes = 1 lat seconds = 47 lat direction = N long degrees = 118 long minutes = 16 long seconds = 30 long… …

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  • 9black — black1 W1S1 [blæk] adj comparative blacker superlative blackest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(colour)¦ 2¦(no light)¦ 3¦(people)¦ 4¦(drink)¦ 5¦(dirty)¦ 6¦(without hope)¦ 7¦(humour)¦ 8¦(angry)¦ …

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  • 10Graphene — is a one atom thick planar sheet of sp2 bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. It can be viewed as an atomic scale chicken wire made of carbon atoms and their bonds. The name comes from GRAPHITE + ENE;… …

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