animal charcoal

American  

noun

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

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animal charcoal

The bones are either used for manure, or are converted into animal charcoal, valuable for various purposes in the arts.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings

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

At the present time shellac is bleached by filtration over animal charcoal.

From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Richard Bitmead

Make a ten per cent infusion of the suspected coffee; filter it, and decolorize the solution by boiling it with a piece of animal charcoal.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) by Kenelm Winslow

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