Charcoal

Binchōtan

Ogatan

Charcoal is a carbon-containing substance made from wood, naturally black and powdery. Charcoal is made from wood by heating it in an "airless" (minimal oxygen) space at a high temperature. The wood will not burn, but instead turn into charcoal. The by-product of making charcoal is tar and turpentine.

People use it for different things such as cooking on a barbecue grill, and in painting.

Charcoal Media

• Bagged Charcoal in Bole Bamboi, Ghana

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  Pictures of charcoal, a fuel obtained by the slow and incomplete combustion of wood

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  Ember of Charcoal

• Mangrove charcoal burning video

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  Wood pile before covering with turf or soil, and firing it (circa 1890)

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  An abandoned charcoal kiln near Walker, Arizona, USA

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  Charcoal under a microscope

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  Binchōtan, Japanese high grade charcoal made from ubame oak

• BurningOgatan(JapaneseBriquetteCharcoal).theora