Soot and particulate matter reductions in excess of 80 percent have been achieved.
After an analysis found that 1% of buildings burning the dirtiest kinds of fuel oil, were producing more soot than all the city's traffic, officials made plans to gradually ban their use and to help landlords convert.
Plastic pollution, soot from power plants, concrete and even domestic chicken bones were considered possible contenders.
Plastic pollution, soot from power plants, concrete and even domestic chicken bones were considered possible contenders.
" So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
It then traps the soot in a small chamber to be mixed with alcohol — in this case, vodka — and a drop of olive oil.
" So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
6 times more soot and smog deaths than gas, because of the pollution made in generating the electricity, according to the study that is published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Di Maio also said that if Van Gogh did shoot himself there would have been "soot, powder tattooing and searing of the skin around the entrance".
The squat windows of his basement apartment were always grimy, opaque with steel-factory soot and ash, but in the spring there were lilacs blooming, sprays of white and lavender pressing against the glass, their scent drifting in like light.
The three dresses of the sun, moon, and stars she placed into a nutshell, put on her mantle of all kinds of fur, and blackened her face and hands with soot.
But the evil spirit was angry at this, so he set to work with soot and incense, which he can mix so artfully as to confuse an angel, and how much more easily a poor poet.
A great cask of mead was drawn into the hall, piles of wood blazed, cattle were slain and served up, that they might feast in reality, The priest who offered the sacrifice sprinkled the devoted parishioners with the warm blood; the fire crackled, and the smoke rolled along beneath the roof; the soot fell upon them from the beams; but they were used to all these things.
It shone round and great, just in his face, that beamed with triumph, though it was very prettily blacked with soot.
