Question

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Charcoal has a higher ………than wood.

Answer 1

• Charcoal is formed when the wood is heated strongly in the absence of air.
• Charcoal is of various forms such as wood charcoal, bone charcoal, and sugar charcoal

Charcoal is better fuel than wood because:

• Charcoal does not produce any smoke whereas wood produces a lot of smoke.
• Charcoal has a higher calorific value than wood, so it produces more heat than wood.
• Charcoal is easy to handle because it is a more compact fuel.

Thus Charcoal has a higher calorific value than wood.