Soot
"Soot" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A dark powdery deposit of unburned fuel residues, composed mainly of amorphous CARBON and some HYDROCARBONS, that accumulates in chimneys, automobile mufflers and other surfaces exposed to smoke. It is the product of incomplete combustion of carbon-rich organic fuels in low oxygen conditions. It is sometimes called lampblack or carbon black and is used in INK, in rubber tires, and to prepare CARBON NANOTUBES.
| Descriptor ID |
D053260
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D20.633.937.339
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| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Soot" by people in Profiles.
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Trubetskaya A, Kling J, Ershag O, Attard TM, Schr?der E. Removal of phenol and chlorine from wastewater using steam activated biomass soot and tire carbon black. J Hazard Mater. 2019 03 05; 365:846-856.