Alton Brown

You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

American Entertainer

Sheldon Whitehouse

When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.

American Politician

John Burnside

Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.

Scottish Writer

Rory McCann

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.

Scottish Actor

Terry Zwigoff

Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it would fall, all the decaying brown brick buildings around where we lived, all this soot all over the place.

American Director

Ernst Zundel

Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.

German Activist

Melvyn Bragg

We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.

English Journalist

Frances Beinecke

The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

American Activist

Gennady Golovkin

I never went into the mine. But I saw my father and other men coming out, day after day, their faces and bodies covered in soot. It looked very hard and dangerous.

Kazakhstani Athlete

Joe Dempsie

It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly.

English Actor

Soot often implies a need for cleaning, as it accumulates on surfaces.

Cleaning Context

Soot is visually striking, being a deep black color that stains.

Visual Description

Soot is specifically the result of incomplete combustion, often from wood or coal.

Combustion Result

Soot is an environmental concern, contributing to air pollution and health issues.

Environmental Impact

Soot often evokes images of industrial areas and historical coal-burning.

Industrial Imagery

Literature and art use soot to symbolize urban life or the working class.

Cultural References

 So odds are our soot will still be here 66 million years from now, easy enough to find for any aliens who care to look. Of course, there's an important difference between us and an asteroid. A space rock has no choice but to follow gravity. We can choose to do differently.

How long will human...

 and the color of the light depends on the temperature of the molecules. The hottest flames are white or blue. The type of molecules in a fire can also influence flame color. For instance, any unreacted carbon atoms from the logs form little clumps of soot that rise

Is fire a solid, a...

 from the soot of the dark, satanic mills, the planners said, hey, let's move the housing away from the mills. And lifespans increased immediately, dramatically, and we like to say the planners have been trying to repeat that experience ever since.

4 ways to make a city...

 and our power our gadgets around the clock. And for 40% of the world, that fuel is cheap, plentiful, and it's called coal. But coal also releases pollutants into the air, like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, soot, and toxic metals, like mercury.

How to create cleaner...

 pollute in terms of particles and soot and noxious gases as much as all the cars in the world. And the good news is that people are now talking about sustainable shipping. There are interesting initiatives going on. But why has it taken so long?

Rose George: Inside the...

 detect an extraordinary number of things we can see the calcium from world's deserts soot from distant wildfires methane is an indicator the strength of Pacific monsoon all wafted on winds from warmer latitudes to this remote from

Inside an Antarctic time...

 of a global nuclear war that leads to a nuclear winter, where soot from burning cities blocks out the sun for years, causing the crops that humanity depends on to fail. We haven't had a nuclear war yet,

The 4 greatest threats...

 fell back to earth many believe that billions of molten particles superheated the air to hundreds of degrees fire swept the planet choking the atmosphere with soot and dust the dinosaurs and most other

Meteor Impact Site PIPE...

 substance over the years he changed his mind he noticed that smoke appeared blue when it passed in front of the black soot inside his fireplace but when he went outside in the daylight and watched

Understanding the colors...

 deeper still the pressures grow so great that these chunks of soot are likely transformed into diamonds but even these