Question

<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Write a short note on charcoal. [5 Marks]

Answer 1

Charcoal is an amorphous form of carbon. [1 Mark]

Charcoal is classified based on availability as wood charcoal, bone charcoal, and sugar charcoal. [1 Mark]

When wood is heated in a limited supply of air, it gives a soft, black, porous substance called wood charcoal. [1 Mark]

It is a bad conductor of electricity and smokeless fuel. [1 Mark]

Then comes sugar charcoal which is the purest form of charcoal and used as a reducing agent to extract metals from their oxides and the bone charcoal is obtained by destructive distillation of bones resulting in bone charcoal. [1 Mark]