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Answer for the clue "Sketching carbon ", 8 letters:
charcoal

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Charcoal is a light, black residue, consisting of carbon and any remaining ash , obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances. Charcoal is usually produced by slow pyrolysis , the heating of wood or other ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., charcole , first element is either Old French charbon "charcoal," or, on the current theory, obsolete charren "to turn" (from Old English cerran ) + cole "coal," thus, "to turn to coal."

Usage examples of charcoal.

Now, too, that Achang had called him a pig, he had to get level also with that turmeric-tinted warrior, and, as he blew sullenly at his charcoal, he saw how.

He used a charcoal stump to write: Yes, they are the aliens who made the paths.

A few bees hurled themF selves into the white-hot charcoal, exploding like little s Above, the bee cloud grew.

River, seven-eight acres, enough high ground for a garden, with good charcoal timber, black mangrove and buttonwood, and one of the few springs along that coast.

The little room was hung all about with locust twigs, for their sweet scent, and was furnished only with a charcoal brazier and a charpai, which is a crude bed made of a wooden frame laced crisscross with ropes.

The prisoners sat in the sand among old rusted tins and bits of charcoal with their hands still manacled before them and the guards set out an old blue graniteware coffeepot and a stewpot of the same material and they drank coffee and ate a dish containing some kind of pale and fibrous tuber, some kind of meat, some kind of fowl.

She pointed to a pile of cushions opposite her, keeping the charcoal brazier and the oil lamp between them.

Later, as the excavation progressed, radiocarbon dates of at least 38,000 years were announced for charcoal from the hearths.

On Western, that meant kebabs and falafel and charcoal fumes that leaked to the sidewalk.

Unlike all the others, it was a charcoal sketch, almost Fauvist in its primitive vitality.

Next, he opened the firepot, and with his knife he fished a handful of waxed linen scraps from the lid, dipped them into the glowing charcoal of the pot and, when they were burning well, he placed them on the paper twists and the cones, and he blew gently on the flicker-ing yellow flames until the pile caught.

Usoq set the brazier on the stone inside the box, piled charcoal in it and used a firepot and pitchy splinters to start the charcoal burning.

Or, if the cupellation loss is neglected or calculated in some other manner, the slag or slags from the scorifier may be powdered and mixed with 20 grams of oxide of lead, 5 grams of borax, and 1 gram of charcoal.

Trend on Concord Station, Grozny Street, where the Style walked side by side with gray-suited, slumming Earthers from exclusive upper levels, the ruling class making their own statement in shades of pearl and charcoal.

The table held a cast-iron pot of water simmering on an intricately fashioned charcoal brazier, a porcelain pot, a tiny handleless cup, a bamboo spoon and bamboo whisk, and a small lacquered box.