Question

Short note on wood charcoal

Answer 1

Answer:

Charcoal is a highly porous and brittle material. Depending on the way of preparation charcoal is found in either lump, briquette, or extruded forms.

Charcoal is a bad conductor of heat and electricity. Charcoal is an amorphous form of carbon and is present as a powder and is highly porous in nature.

Answer 2

Answer:

Charcoal is formed when carbon-containing compounds are heated in a limited supply of air.

Wood charcoal:

Wood charcoal is obtained by the destructive distillation of dry wood in a hard glass test-tube.

1. Wood charcoal is mainly carbon and thus, a better fuel than wood due to the following reasons.

a. Its calorific value is higher than that of wood.

b. Its ignition temperature is less than wood.

c. It causes less air pollution