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a conventional fire, but decomposes to form charcoal. the most common variety of charcoal, wood charcoal, was formerly prepared by piling wood into stacks, covering it with earth or turf, and setting it on fire. in this process volatile compounds in the wood (e.g., water) pass off as vapors into the
air, some of the carbon is consumed as fuel, and the rest of the carbon is converted into charcoal. in the modern method, wood is raised to a high temperature in an iron retort, and industrially important byproducts, e.g., methanol (wood alcohol or wood spirit), acetone , pyroligneous acid, and acetic...
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