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  • In 1981, an electrical transformer fire contaminated the 18-story Binghamton State Office Building with soot-laden with toxic PCBs and dioxin.

    Ex-N.Y. Gov. Hugh Carey dies at 92 2011

  • In 1981, an electrical transformer fire contaminated the 18-story Binghamton State Office Building with soot-laden with toxic PCBs and dioxin.

    Ex-N.Y. Gov. Hugh Carey dies at 92 2011

  • In 1981, an electrical transformer fire contaminated the 18-story Binghamton State Office Building with soot-laden with toxic PCBs and dioxin.

    Ex-N.Y. Gov. Hugh Carey dies at 92 2011

  • As temperatures rise at high altitudes, more of the soot-laden snow melts before any new snow can bury it and compress it into glacial ice.

    The Most Endangered Glaciers 2010

  • The foremost clouds, lowering and black as soot-laden smoke, rushed with extraordinary swiftness over the sky.

    Anna Karenina 2003

  • They were as distant to him as the tantalizing glimpse of a single star flung high above soot-laden clouds.

    Thief Of Hearts Medeiros, Teresa 1994

  • With the toe of his boot he gently boosted it over the last obstacle in its path and watched until it had found obscurity beneath the water's soot-laden surface.

    The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

  • With the toe of his boot he gently boosted it over the last obstacle in its path and watched until it had found obscurity beneath the water's soot-laden surface.

    The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

  • It was sweaty, soot-laden, as if the entire area were one vast mill.

    Floating City Lustbader, Eric 1990

  • She caught herself wondering one day in early March how it would have been with cross Reuben home after the cold soot-laden rains set in, when day after day, except for time at school, the children, even Enoch, were shut within doors; and the place seemed even smaller, smellier, more filled with steam and leaking gas and radio and quarreling children than at any time since their coming.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

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