Defined by the UK’s Quality Urban Air Review Group in Urban Air Quality in the United Kingdom (1993) as non-reflective particulate matter associated with the smoke stain measurement...

Black smoke is a fictional weapon from the H. G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds. In the story, it is the secondary offensive weapon employed by the Martians, as a means of chemical warfare. It is delivered by way of a tube-like launcher carried by...