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

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Charcoal is an amorphous form of carbon. Charcoal is classified based on availability as wood charcoal, bone charcoal, and sugar charcoal. When wood is heated in a limited supply of air, it gives a soft, black, porous substance called wood charcoal. It is a bad conductor of electricity and smokeless fuel. 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.

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