Definition of Charcoal

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Charcoal

Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.

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Charcoal Quotations

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
Bill Vaughan

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.
Harry Houdini

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.
Harry Houdini

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.
Robert Fortune

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
William Scott

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.
Bobby Flay

Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.
John Lindsay

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
Gunter Grass

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.
George Mercer Dawson

Charcoal Translations

charcoal in Dutch is dovekool, houtskool
charcoal in German is Holzkohle
charcoal in Latin is carbo
charcoal in Norwegian is trekull

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