sooting
sooting is the present participle and gerund of soot.
Meaning of soot
Verb
soot (third-person singular simple present soots, present participle sooting, simple past and past participle sooted)
Noun
sooting (countable and uncountable, plural sootings)
- The act of covering or dressing with soot.
- However, for some catalysts an accelerated aging was used which involved eight consecutive sootings at an inlet temperature of 370°C for three hours each followed by a regeneration during which the inlet temperature was increased to 650°C for 15 minutes.1987, A. Crucq, A. Frennet, Catalysis and Automotive Pollution Control, page 459
Forms of sooting
| plural | sootings |
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Questions about sooting
- What does sooting mean?
- Sooting means the act of covering or dressing with soot.
- What is sooting the present participle and gerund of?
- Sooting is the present participle and gerund of soot.
- What part of speech is sooting?
- Sooting is a noun.
- What is the plural of sooting?
- The plural of sooting is sootings.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sooting (page history and authors); soot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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