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Meanings of charcoal in English

Portuguese
carvão
Catalan
carbonet
Spanish
carboncillo
Wikidata

Form of dry art medium.

carvão
Portuguese
carvão
Catalan
carbó vegetal

A carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air.

carvão
Synonyms
Examples for "wood coal"
Examples for "wood coal"
1
There was a low-burning fire, mostly glowing wood coals.
Hell House
2
Zeb sliced off some venison cutlets and cooked them to a turn over hot wood coals.
The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone
3
This precaution rarely failed with good hard- wood coals.
Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago / Personal recollections ...
4
Plump brook trout, fresh from icy water, delicately broiled over searing wood coals, are the finest of food.
Her Father's Daughter
5
There was no fireplace, and the count had the place warmed by means of a big brass brazier filled with wood coals.
Taquisara
Portuguese
carvão

A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.

carvão

Of a very dark grey.

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Usage of charcoal in English
1
Kigali intends to ban charcoal use in the early 2020s, he noted.
Reuters
2
I will draw it in in charcoal and your Eminence can judge.
Saracinesca
3
The intense heat transforms the wood into charcoal in a few hours.
General Science
4
Long-term charcoal hemoperfusion was confirmed to be a safe and risk-free procedure.
Pubmed
5
It's astounding how much oak it takes to make smelting quality charcoal.
Surrender to the will of the night
6
There is a process It has to happen on wood or charcoal.
The South African
7
Read on for our rankings of the best gas and charcoal options.
Wired
8
One day I saw an ugly piece of charcoal in the road.
The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
9
He took his charcoal and made upon the wall the following marks:
Cord and Creese
10
He is showing oils, mixed media works on paper and charcoal drawings.
The Irish Times
11
Our mistake was using charcoal briquettes, which have too fine an ash.
Mastering the grill: the owner's manual for outdoor cooking
12
I have made Nicolas Hailer's portrait in charcoal; paid 2 white pf.
Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
13
The charcoal used in the process came, they told me, from Noto.
Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan
14
Carbon was known most familiarly in those times as charcoal and diamonds.
Wired
15
Wood-chopping and charcoal-burning for smelting furnaces seemed to be the principal industry.
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2: November 1863...
16
I told Fred, bursting in on our party by the charcoal brazier.
The Eye of Zeitoon
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