![]() But if you let him have plenty of air there’s no holding him.” “Once he’s got a good hold you can cover a fire up and the better you cover him the hotter he is and the slower he burns. The slower the fire the better the charcoal.” “If he burns fast he leaves nowt but ash. ![]() “We want ours to burn good and slow,” said Young Billy. Great piles of wood are carefully arranged above or below ground so that once the fire is set the heat that is generated slowly "bakes" the wood, vaporizing off the moisture, vaporizing off volatile organic compounds (VOCs) leaving behind the hard black crusted charcoal. How was charcoal originally made? Basically the same way it is made today around the world. ![]() Charcoal burns hotter and cleaner than wood and so wood was converted to charcoal. Charcoal’s first application (circa 1750 B.C.) was as a fuel for smelting ore. Historically charcoal has been made from wood, both softwoods and hardwoods. Irrespective of what the source is for charcoal, the carbon structure has been so altered from its original configuration as to present an extremely intricate and extremely porous internal matrix, giving it a large surface area available for adsorption ("a dsorption" - the ability to bind atoms/molecules to a surface), or chemical reactions. ![]() Having looked at carbon as a building block, let’s look at what makes charcoal so distinct from the other forms of pure carbon. (Encarta® World English Dictionary© 1999)
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