Charcoal vs Cinder - What's the difference?
charcoal | cinder |
(uncountable) Impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 (countable) A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
*
(countable) A drawing made with charcoal.
A very dark gray colour.
Of a dark gray colour.
Made of charcoal.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.
An ember.
Slag from a metal furnace.
As nouns the difference between charcoal and cinder
is that charcoal is impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen while cinder is partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.As verbs the difference between charcoal and cinder
is that charcoal is to draw with charcoal while cinder is to reduce something to cinders.As an adjective charcoal
is of a dark gray colour.As a proper noun Cinder is
a river in Alaska.charcoal
English
(wikipedia charcoal)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal .}}
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
Derived terms
* activated charcoal * charcoal burner * charcoal drawing * charcoal greySee also
* carbo vegetabilis * briquette * brown coal * coal * coal pot * collier * fusain * kangri * wood coal *cinder
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- (Jonathan Swift)
