Charcoal vs Coals - What's the difference?
charcoal | coals |
(uncountable) Impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
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, chapter=2 (countable) A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
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(countable) A drawing made with charcoal.
A very dark gray colour.
Of a dark gray colour.
Made of charcoal.
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, chapter=2 The glowing embers that result when wood is burned, and that can continue to release intense heat.(w)
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*:When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals , and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
English plurals Multiple pieces of coal.
(coal)
As nouns the difference between charcoal and coals
is that charcoal is (uncountable) impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen while coals is the glowing embers that result when wood is burned, and that can continue to release intense heat(w).As verbs the difference between charcoal and coals
is that charcoal is to draw with charcoal while coals is (coal).As an adjective charcoal
is of a dark gray colour.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.}}