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Definition of Charcoaly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Charcoaly
Literary usage of Charcoaly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science (1869)
"I have also examined the charcoaly matter produced by the slow combustion ...
The charcoaly matters contained in benzine and naphthaline both behave in the ..."
2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1891)
"The block of coal usually breaks also along the flat laminae, exposing a somewhat
dull, charcoaly surface, more or less interfered with by the next-lying ..."
3. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"When the acetate is dissolved in water, the charcoaly matter proceeding from th<
decomposition of the tar must be separated by filtration, or by boiling np ..."
4. Organic Remains of a Former World: An Examination of the Mineralized Remains by James Parkinson (1804)
"... place in closed vessels: becoming heated in consequence of their slow
decompositions, and new combinations; and thus being resolved into charcoaly, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"It dissolves with effervescence in hydrochloric acid, leaving a charcoaly residuum.
Its constituents resemble those of the preceding. ..."
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