sooty

Those pollutants include particulate matter 2.5, or sooty material that is released from vehicles, industrial smokestacks and wildfires.

Now stored in sealed plastic bags, the sooty plumes will help answer questions about how chronic smoke exposure affects birds, and what exactly the animals were exposed to during L.A.’s firestorms.

He woke up Thursday morning with a bloody nose and a sooty black crust in the corners of his eyes.

An exhausted and sooty Mark Turner had just returned Wednesday from inspecting his home in Altadena and removing valuables, and he was showing 13-year-old daughter May some photographs of the devastation.

“This soil was so sooty and full of carbon,” the University of Montreal archaeologist recalls.