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Historically, the white smoke was created by burning the ballots together with dry straw. The black smoke was made from the ballots, wet straw, and with the addition of pitch to darken the color.
Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new pope has been elected.
Since the 1800s, smoke signals have been used to communicate the results of the vote. The smoke is created by burning the ballots, and originally just meant that no pope had been elected.
The smoke’s color is dictated by the particle color, which means white and black colored smoke result from waste products other than carbon dioxide, which is colorless.
In the papal conclave to elect a new pope, here's a look at what the color of smoke (black or white) means after each vote.