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NakoL1 t1_j9c2nhd wrote

Reply to comment by Perma_frosting in Are all coals equal ? by Arks_traveler

> Charcoal is the chunks of carbon that are left over when you burn something organic

that's not very accurate. "burn" means letting something react with (di)oxygen, but charcoal is made by pyrolysis, whereby wood is heated to high temperatures with no or very little oxygen

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