animal charcoal

American  

noun

1. carbon obtained from the carbonization of organic tissue of animals.

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animal charcoal

It possesses also still a slight smell and taste of lead plaster, which may be removed by diluting it with water, and by digestion with animal charcoal, and some fresh burnt-wood charcoal.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse

The animal charcoal might possibly have been useful if applied immediately.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

The distillate is concentrated and after treatment with animal charcoal and filtration should conform to the requirements of the British Pharmacopœia.

From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. Simmons

Spirit of hartshorn, oleum animale, spunge burnt to charcoal, black-snuffs of candles, which consist principally of animal charcoal, wood-soot, oil of amber.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

Animal Charcoal for Decolorisation.—The application of animal charcoal for decolorising purposes dates back a century, and various are the views that have been propounded to explain its action.

From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. Simmons