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[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

What is the difference between копоть and сажа? Is the first black and the second white?

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[oryx_and_crake]

I daresay they are pretty much the same. Сажа you can usually find in a chimney, and копоть is a finer layer that accumulates with years on the ceilings and walls of a room where there is plenty of candles burned and/or which is warmed by an open fire. Потолок покрыт копотью. В трубе загорелась сажа.

[shota-kitten.livejournal.com]

they are both black. пепел (ash) is white.

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

ah, thanks!

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

thank you both.
Then I beleive in Swedish it will, confusingly, be:
копоть - sot
сажа - sot/aska
пепель -aska

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[left-bank.livejournal.com]

Yes. "Копоть" and "сажа" are about the same. They are black. "Копоть", "сажа", "пепел" are combustion products. And there is one word of these group: "зола".

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

thanks!

No,

[lion-casserole.livejournal.com]

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"Зола" (Ashes) is not combustible, while "сажа" in the flues could be a source of fire - one needs to eliminate it regularly, i.e. pay to a chimney-sweep for that.

[killing-panda.livejournal.com]

i guess you read something like this: "как сажа бела"? the color "белый" is used in a figural sense here . ususally the whole proverb looks like this: дела как сажа бела. which means that everything is as good as сажа is white. => everything is bad because сажа is black)

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

aga:-) my dictionary translated both to "sot", and there were examples of expressions, one was "sazha bela", it was the only clue I had. Which turned out to be a tricker :-)

Копоть сажу смыл под душем...

[lion-casserole.livejournal.com]

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копоть - that is mainly the burning oil-lamp or candle flame's black. Your cloth, hair or skin could collect it if there is some carbon-smoke in the air;
сажа - a carbon-black substance - a result of collecting unburned particles of carbon. You need to touch a dirty surface to catch it. Sometimes there are black flakes drifting in the air - these are "хлопья сажи", the grey ones are "хлопья пепла".

Inside the oven's flue one could find plenty of "сажа". А thin, virtually transparent film of "сажа" on the oil-lamp's glass could be considered being "копоть" - one could use "закопченное стекло" to watch the Sun during a solar eclipse.

One more thing. The Russian equivalent for "smoked fish" is "копчёная рыба", there is "холодное копчение" и "горячее копчение" i.e. the cold and hot smoke could be used for than.

[laviergedeneige.livejournal.com]

I would say that копоть is a thin layer of сажа.

[khathi.livejournal.com]

"Копоть" may also mean the airborne soot, as in a smog or a chimney smoke, but "сажа" refers only to the settled, compact material.

[kys.livejournal.com]

Сажа is a black ash, sometimes oily black ash.
Копоть - both a black smoke [e.g. from a candle] and the thin, mostly black ( and sometimes oily ) layer of the products of burning on a ceiling, on the bottom of a staircase, on the walls of a lamp etc )