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charcoal /char·coal/ (chahr´kol) carbon prepared by charring wood or other organic material. activated charcoal residue of destructive distillation of various organic materials, treated to increase its adsorptive power; used as a general-purpose antidote. animal charcoal charcoal prepared from bone; it may be purified (purified animal c.) by removal of materials dissolved by hot hydrochloric acid and water; adsorbent and decolorizer.
charcoal, n a carbonized reduction of wood used as fuel and as an adsorptive substance to cleanse the air; it is used in some medical products. charcoal carbon prepared by charring wood or other organic material. activated charcoal the residue of destructive distillation of various organic materials, treated to increase its adsorptive power; used as a general purpose antidote. |
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If that gesture--/hands head-high and still under/the veil, ready to throw back//the black-on-white charcoaled folds--/were not so like our nightmares/of the sheeted dead, rising. I could still smell charcoaled meat, and on the street I could see no women, not one. And from a charcoaled, stub-like state the wiregrass will begin to sprout almost immediately, sending out 2- to 3-foot flowering stalks and seeds. |
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