A Dictionary of Arts: Soot.

A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines; containing A Clear Exposition of Their Principles and Practice

by Andrew Ure, M. D.;
F. R. S. M. G. S. Lond.: M. Acad. M. S. Philad.; S. PH. DOC. N. GERM. Ranow.; Mulh. Etc. Etc.

Illustrated with nearly fifteen hundred engravings on wood
Eleventh American, From The Last London Edition.
To which is appended, a Supplement of Recent Improvements to The Present Time.

New York: D Appleton & company, 200 Broadway. Philadelphia: George S. Appleton, 148 Chestnut St.
MDCCCXLVII

1847

SOOT (Noir de fumie, Suie, Fr.; Rus, Flatterrus Germ.), is the pulverulent charcoal condensed from the smoke of wood or coal fuel. A watery infusion of the tormer is said to be antiseptic, probably from its containing some creosote.
The soot of pitcoal has not been analyzed with any minuteness. It contains some []ate and carbonate of ammonia, along with bituminous matter.