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Don't want to imply that we pour briquettes into blast furnaces! Note: Don't wikify "coke" to the page on the drink. Make a real article.
Charcoal pencils are also used in [[sketching]].
Charcoal pencils are also used in [[sketching]].
Charcoal is useful for reducing metallic oxides to the metal itself, because it can chemically combine with the oxygen in the metal oxide and turn into a gas (carbon dioxide), which escapes. This has been the method by which many elements were isolated, and is used at an industrial level, for example, in making [[steel]].
Charcoal is useful for reducing metallic oxides to the metal itself, because it can chemically combine with the oxygen in the metal oxide and turn into a gas (carbon dioxide), which escapes. This has been the method by which many elements were isolated. The same process, with another form of carbon ("coke"), is used at an industrial level, for example, in making [[steel]].
[[Category:Fuel]]
[[Category:Fuel]]