soot

Indeed, a common racial slur in Dutch is, precisely, roetmop, which means soot mop.

There is also soot staining the tiles, suggesting the bodies were burned or there had been a small blast.

Air pollution gets worse during drought; in California the problem is soot, and in Texas it was ozone.

Some computer models, he said, indicate that about half of the global warming in the Arctic is driven by methane and soot.

Ladder 118 looks small on the Brooklyn Bridge; in the foreground both towers billow soot.

As it passed out of the chimney, the soot left those long streaks of black which we see now on the woodpecker's back.

A rubber blanket was procured, and the soot from the chimney carefully swept into it.

Then he crouched trembling in the fireplace, his pretty green hair all blackened with soot and covered with ashes.

Fearing to be met by some of the guests of the Duke of Aquitaine, the serf had smeared soot mixed with grease over his face.

Upon it they wrote with pens made of split reeds and with a thick ink made of soot (lampblack) mixed with resinous gums.