Ash vs. Soot

Ashnoun

The solid remains of a fire.

Ashnoun

(chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.

Ashnoun

Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.

Ashnoun

(in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.

Ashnoun

(figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.

Ashnoun

A gray colour, like that of ash.

Ashnoun

A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.

Ashnoun

(uncountable) The wood of this tree.

Ashnoun

The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.

Ashverb

(chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.

Ashverb

To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.

Ashverb

To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.

Ashnoun

A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (Fraxinus Americana).

Ashnoun

The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.

Ashnoun

sing. of Ashes.

Ashverb

To strew or sprinkle with ashes.

Ashnoun

the residue that remains when something is burned

Ashnoun

any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus

Ashnoun

strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats

Ashverb

convert into ashes

Ashnoun

the powdery residue left after the burning of a substance

Ashnoun

the remains of a human body after cremation or burning

Ashnoun

the mineral component of an organic substance, as assessed from the residue left after burning

Ashnoun

a trophy for the winner of a series of Test matches in a cricket season between England and Australia.

Ashnoun

a tree with compound leaves, winged fruits, and hard pale timber, widely distributed throughout north temperate regions.

Ashnoun

the hard pale wood of the ash tree.

Ashnoun

used in names of trees unrelated to the ash but with similar leaves, e.g. mountain ash.

Ashnoun

an Old English runic letter, ᚫ, a vowel intermediate between a and e. It is represented in the Roman alphabet by the symbol æ or Æ.

Ash

Ash or ashes are the solid remnants of fires. Specifically, ash refers to all non-aqueous, non-gaseous residues that remain after something burns.

Sootnoun

Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

Sootverb

(transitive) To cover or dress with soot.

Sootnoun

A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke.

Sootverb

To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land.

Sootadjective

Sweet.

Sootnoun

a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

Sootverb

coat with soot

Sootnoun

a deep black powdery or flaky substance consisting largely of amorphous carbon, produced by the incomplete burning of organic matter.

Sootverb

cover or clog (something) with soot

Soot

Soot ( suut) is a mass of impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. It is more properly restricted to the product of the gas-phase combustion process but is commonly extended to include the residual pyrolysed fuel particles such as coal, cenospheres, charred wood, and petroleum coke that may become airborne during pyrolysis and that are more properly identified as cokes or char.