Word: soot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sediment taken from Denmark, Spain and New Zealand. To their surprise, all three samples contained carbon that had been deposited at a rate 10,000 times as great as carbon in the layers immediately above and below them. It was bunched together in the fluffy patterns characteristic of common soot. Says Anders: "It's like the stuff you see in the flame of a candle." He believes that the soot almost certainly is a remnant of vegetation consumed by fires...
...outward at the speed of sound, igniting forest fires from North America to Asia. Several hundred billion tons of plants and animals would have been incinerated, sending great scarves of black smoke to join the impact dust in the stratosphere and circulate around the globe. What is more, because soot does not rain out as easily as dust, the protonuclear winter would have lasted much longer than it would through obscuring dust alone. Most plants and large animals that survived the blast, the fire and the lethal clouds of carbon monoxide would have succumbed to the climatic changes. But smaller...
...divorcee found work cementing shoes in a factory and rented a two-story house. She worked extra hours to pay her bills and, according to the Washington Post, would arrive home "in jeans and a sweatshirt covered with soot and glue, too tired to change clothes." Shalel Way, a friend in Skowhegan, told the Post that Barbara would complain, "Johnny Walker did this to me." She shared her secret with Way, even asking for a Tarot card reading to help her decide whether to tell the FBI. She claimed that John would get drunk, call her on the phone...
...Defense and Energy, the NOAA, NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency are about to launch a comprehensive study. In one of the survey's likely investigations, a plane will fly above large-scale forest fires, and on-board equipment will gauge particle size and the destination of the soot. High above the earth, satellites will photograph the smoke plumes...
...Clouds of dust and smoke block sun's rays, then spread over vast areas of the globe, causing ground temperatures to fall. Much of the soot in lower troposphere is eventually washed out by rain, but clouds higher up continue to block sun for weeks or months. The particles that reach stratosphere could remain for a year or more...