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- Dictionarysoot/sʊt/
noun
- 1. a deep black powdery or flaky substance consisting largely of amorphous carbon, produced by the incomplete burning of organic matter.
verb
- 1. cover or clog (something) with soot: "you have previously sooted the underside of their plate by holding it over a candle"
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SOOT definition: 1. a black powder composed mainly of carbon, produced when coal, wood, etc. is burned: 2. a black…. Learn more.
SOOT meaning: 1. a black powder composed mainly of carbon, produced when coal, wood, etc. is burned: 2. a black…. Learn more.
The meaning of SOOT is a black substance formed by combustion or separated from fuel during combustion, rising in fine particles, and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; especially : the fine powder consisting chiefly of carbon that colors smoke.
Soot definition: a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke. See examples of SOOT used in a sentence.
Definition of soot noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The powdery black stuff that's sometimes created when fuel burns is called soot. A chimney sweep's job is to clean all the soot and ash from inside a chimney. Soot is mostly made of carbon, and it forms when matter burns incompletely.
SOOT definition: a black powder produced when coal, wood, etc is burnt. Learn more.
n. 1. a black carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles that adhere to and blacken surfaces on contact. v.t. 2. to mark, cover, or treat with soot. [before 900; Middle English; Old English sōt]
Formation of soot is a complex process, an evolution of matter in which a number of molecules undergo many chemical and physical reactions within a few milliseconds. [1] Soot always contains nanoparticles of graphite and diamond, a phenomenon known as gemmy soot. Soot is a powder-like form of amorphous carbon.
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations. transitive verb. 2. to mark, cover, or treat with soot.
