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black smoke [¦blak ′smōk]

(engineering)

A smoke that has many particulates in it from inefficient combustion; comes from burning fossil fuel, either coal or oil.

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No references found			But, at last, above the subsiding red of the fire, above the streaming masses of black smoke and the whitening and blackening tree stumps, and the diminishing numbers of these dim creatures, came the white light of the day. The Time Machine by Wells, H.G. View in context Far away down the coast, toward the river through which we had come to reach the lake, we saw upon the surface the outline of the U-33, black smoke vomiting from her funnel. The Land That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context Against the warm dawn great tumultuous masses of black smoke were boiling up out of the enclosure, and through their stormy darkness shot flickering threads of blood-red flame. The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context			Black Root of Beets black root rot Black Rot Black Rust black sand Black Sands Beach State Marine Park Black Sandy State Park black scope black scour Black Screen of Death Black Sea Black Sea Cossack Host Black Sea Fleet Black Sea Highway Black Sea Lowland Black Sea Mutiny in the French Fleet Black Sea Preserve Black Sea Straits black shale black shank Black Ships Festival Black Shirts black signal black silicon black silver black smoke black smoker black snake black snow Black Sox Scandal black spot black steel pipe black stem Black Stone of Mecca Black Stone, the black storm black stripe black studies black tellurium black theatre black thread Black Tiger Bay State Recreation Area Black Tikhoretsk Turkeys black tip Black Tom black top black transmission Black Tuesday Black Tulip, The Black Volta black vomit			Black sheep (term) Black Sheep Brotherhood Black Sheep Gaming Society Black Sheep Gourmet Foods Black Sheep Inn Black Sheep of the Family Black Sheep of the Family Black Sheep Squadron Black Sheep Turkmen Black Sheep Turkomans Black Sheep Turks Black Ships Festival Black Shirt Black Shirt Black Shirts Black Shoe Diaries Black Shot Black Side Wall black signal black silicon Black silver Black silver Black Sisters and Brothers United black skimmer Black Skull Black Skull Dragon Black smith black smoke Black smoker Black smoker Black smokers Black smokers Black snake Black snake Black snake Black snake black snakeroot black snakeroot Black snakes Black snakes Black snakes Black Snow Black Soil Black Soil black soil blindness black soil itch Black Soldier Fly Larvae Black South African English Black South West Network Black Sox Black Sox Scandal Black Spanish Black Spawn Den Black Spiral Dancer black spleenwort Black Sports Agents Association Black Sports the Magazine black spot

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