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Перевод: soot

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Тезаурус:

1. The Act was a success, although the "particulates" (mainly soot) raining down over Britain's cities had anyway been gradually decreasing since the 1920s.
2. Consistent with this, the results of recent research on Kuwait oil fires indicate that the smoke did not appear to be rising high enough to reach the stratosphere, where transport may occur over considerable distances with soot particles remaining for months.
3. Adding the screw-on cranes until the brush emerged from the chimney, I pulled it down amidst a great cloud of soot - but the brush must have come unscrewed half-way, and there it remained.
4. THE first thing to go on to the canvas was a sketch in grey wax crayon, which mixes happily with the oils, whereas graphite would turn to gritty soot.
5. The fresher the soot, the longer it needed to percolate through the hessian, but within three or four days the water would be nicely laced.
6. Once Dot had seen a canary in a bent cage pulled out, black like a little sparrow from the ashes and soot, yet still singing even though its owner was gone.
7. It has sandblasted 100 years of black soot off Leeds' fine civic buildings to reveal the pale sandstone underneath, turned much of the city centre into a traffic-free pedestrian zone and made their old manufacturing mills into museums.
8. Finally, there were the microscopic soot spheres, produced by high temperature combustion, such as in the boilers of power stations.
9. Foundries and mines, factories and tenements were spreading outwards from the old heart of the town, and an ever-present pall of smoke and soot hung in the air over the river.
10. The floor was covered with a black substance that looked like soot, but grated under the soles of her boots like sand.
11. In bygone days composts were secrets locked in the mind of the formidable head gardeners whose magical mixes blended from leaf mould, old mortar rubble, soot, garden soil, silver sand and twice-sieved sphagnum moss were varied to suit the individual needs of every plant they grew.
12. The latter two are vital in controlling particulate (soot) emission, as burnt oil and sulphates make up a significant chunk of the black stuff that swirls away from the exhaust stack.
13. She saw the same high empty space between the ground and the broken glass roof, she recognized the air which smelled of soot and coal-smoke and was thick as grey soup, and the mottled pigeon-droppings and the grey suits of men, the black hats.