Talk:Charcoal
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As for 'sumi-e', the 'sumi' here means ink, not charcoal. They are homophones in Japanese, and the ink is made from (I believe) pine soot, but sumi-e is ink painting, not charcoal painting.
I guess the top image is from 1890, not 1990. Perhaps Meteor2017 can confirm this? -- TrygveFlathen 08:43, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Should discuss use of charcoal in art, and mention parsemage. --Daniel C. Boyer
Does it really make sense to say that gunpowder is "one of the most important uses"? Especially when by gunpowder we mean black powder. --conana
Should also make reference to the wide use of sedimentary charcoal in palaeoenvironmental studies, in the study of the history of fire ecology and regimes.
- If anyone feels a certain aspect is regrattably totally absent dfrom an article, (s)he wold do better to have a go at adding something to the article (which is probably watched by many contributors, and thus may get going) rather then just complain on Talk (which is often given a miss, e.g. by me most of the time).
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[edit] External link?
The external link at http://www.swuklink.com/BAAAGFDO.php is interesting but very poorly formatted and difficult to read. Anyone else agree? -- Dave C. 00:52, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
No, that link formatted fine for me. --Syrthiss 14:10, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
- It looked okay to me until I tried to scroll. What a mess. I didn't bother reading it; worth keeping? ike9898 20:01, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Charcoal in stomach vaste reservoirs
I'm not entirely sure as to how to write this, but I have heard charcoal is used in those bags where fecal matter enters on the stomach surface. To absord the stench of flatulence and feces?
[edit] why burn charcoal over wood?
maybe add to the top of the page the reasons for using charcoal instead of just burning wood in a fire for cooking/heating? I assume the removal of the water and other components allows charcoal to burn to a higher temperature, but am not sure. 66.92.173.28 19:33, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
That and the fact that the product of its combustion is mainly carbon dioxide, hence, very little smoke. Regular wood gives off a good ammount of steam and unburnt carbon particles (soot) in the smoke.
[edit] Explanation is unclear
"Under average conditions, 100 parts of wood yield about 60 parts by volume, or 25 parts by weight, of charcoal; small scale production on the spot often yields only about 50%, large scale was efficient to about 90% even by the 17th century."
What does the 50% and 90% refer to here?
It probably means that 90% by weight of the carbon in the wood remained as charcoal, but unless that's cited, I really dont' know whether that should be included in the article --204.169.28.98 14:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] charcoal and steamcoal
Can anybody tell me the basic difference between charcoal dust and coal dust produced during mining (i.e. steam coal dust) whether charcoal dust can be used in place of steam coal dust in foundry sand addition?
Nitin Poddar
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