Hardwood Charcoal

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Charcoal is the blackish residue consisting of impure carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances.  Charcoal is usually produced by slow pyrolysis, the heating of wood, sugar, bone char, or other substances in the absence of oxygen (see pyrolysis, char and biochar).  The resulting soft, brittle, lightweight, black, porous material resembles coal and is *5% to *8% carbon with the remainder consisting of volatile chemicals and ash.

Charcoal is sometimes used to power commercial road vehicles—usually buses—in countries where oil is scarce or completely unavailable.  In the years immediately after the Second World War, charcoal buses were in regular use in Japan and are still used today in North Korea.