element

Charcoal

Elements

Wood burned in low air into a black fuel and drawing stuff. Not coal from the ground, and not soot as dust.

  • Charcoal is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats charcoal among drying and cleansing carbon remedies. A Roman-era pharmacological use of burned wood-carbon, not coal from the ground and not soot as unsorted dust.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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