Editing Soot (section)

===Related terms===
Terms like "soot", "carbon black", and "black carbon" are often used to mean the same thing, even in the scientific literature, but other scientists have stated this is incorrect and that they refer to chemically and physically distinct things.<ref name = "long2013"/><ref name="Rituraj2017"/><ref name = "Watson2001">{{cite journal | vauthors = Watson AY, Valberg PA  | title = Carbon black and soot: two different substances | journal = [[Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene]] | volume =62 | pages =  218–228| date =2001  | issue = 2 | pmid = 11331994| doi = 10.1080/15298660108984625 }}</ref>

'''[[Carbon black]]''' is a term for the industrial production of powdery carbonaceous matter which has been underway since the 19th century. Carbon black is composed almost entirely of elemental carbon. Carbon black is not found in regular soot - only in the special soot that is intentionally produced for its manufacture, mostly from specialised oil furnaces.<ref name = "long2013"/><ref name="Rituraj2017"/>

'''[[Black carbon]]''' is a term that arose in the late twentieth century among atmospheric scientists, to describe strongly light absorbing carbonaceous particles which have a significant [[climate forcing]] affect - second only to {{CO2}} itself as a contributor to short term global warming. The term is sometimes used synonymously with soot, but is now used preferentially in atmospheric science, though some prefer more precise terms like 'light-absorbing carbon'.<ref>{{cite journal | author=[[Tami Bond]] |author2=Robert W. Bergstrom| date=2020-09-13|title=Light Absorption by Carbonaceous Particles: An Investigative Review|journal=Aerosol Science and Technology |volume=40 |pages=27–67 |doi=10.1080/02786820500421521|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02786820500421521}}</ref> Unlike carbon black, black carbon is produced unintentionally. The chemical composition of ''black carbon'' is much more varied, and typically has a much lower proportion of elemental carbon, compared with ''carbon black''.<ref name = "long2013"/><ref name="Rituraj2017"/> In some definitions, black carbon also includes [[charcoal]], a type of matter where the chunks tend to be too large to have an aerosol form as is the case with soot.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Burke M, Marín-Spiotta E, Ponette-González AG | title =Black carbon in urban soils: land use and climate drive variation at the surface. | journal = [[Carbon Balance and Management]] | volume =9 | date =2024  | issue =1 | page =9 | pmid = 38429441| doi =10.1186/s13021-024-00255-3  | doi-access =free | pmc =10908174 | bibcode =2024CarBM..19....9B }}</ref>