Definition of Bone char

1. Noun. Black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment.

Exact synonyms: Animal Black, Animal Charcoal, Bone Black
Generic synonyms: Char

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bone Char

bone-shaking
bone: gallium imaging
bone Gla protein
bone abscess
bone ache
bone age
bone architecture
bone ash
bone banks
bone black
bone block
bone canaliculus
bone cancer
bone cell
bone cements
bone char (current term)
bone charcoal
bone china
bone conduction
bone corpuscle
bone cyst
bone cysts
bone demineralization technique
bone density
bone development
bone dry
bone dry(p)
bone dry unit
bone fat
bone fire

Literary usage of Bone char

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Degener and Lack state that freshly ignited bone-char, moistened with water, and exposed to light and aif, produces a perceptible quantity of hydrogen ..."

2. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp (1916)
"The bone-char in the filter is freshly calcined, dusted and " tempered " with acid, ... The bone-char filters * used for glucose are cast-iron cylinders, ..."

3. A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry by David Talbot Day (1922)
"The early system of filtration through a series of small filters with transfer of the unwashed earth or bone char to a large "wash" filter is practically ..."

4. Industrial Chemistry: A Manual for the Student and Manufacturer by Allen Rogers (1920)
"The bone-char filters are identical with those used in sugar refining, being vertical ... The glucose is passed twice through the bone-char filters, ..."

5. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"This bone-char consists of bone-earth most intimately admixed and covered with charcoal, ... After the bone-char has served the purposes of sugar-refiners, ..."

6. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"After the bone-char has served the purposes of sugar-refiners, and become "spent," it is disposed of, at a low price, to the manufacturers of superphosphate ..."

7. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"The liquors receive a much greater amount of bone-char treatment than is the custom in sugar refineries, passing, in all, over 72 feet. ..."

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