Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) activated carbon
WordNet
n. powdered or granular carbon used for purifying by adsorption; given orally (as a slurry) it is an antidote for some kinds of poisons [syn: activated carbon]
Wikipedia
Activated charcoal, or activated carbon, is used as a medication to treat poisonings following excessive oral ingestion of certain medications or poisons. Side effects may include aspiration into the lungs.
It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most important medications needed in a basic health system. It costs wholesale between 0.01 and 0.02 USD per 125 mg pill.
Usage examples of "activated charcoal".
If the manifest of ingredients on the bottle had been legible, it would have read something like this: Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt, garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke, snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guinness Stout fermentation dregs, uranium mill tailings, muffler cores, monosodium glutamate, nitrates, nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes, nutrites, natrotes, powdered pork nose hairs, dynamite, activated charcoal, match-heads, used pipe cleaners, tar, nicotine, singlemalt whiskey, smoked beef lymph nodes, autumn leaves, red fuming nitric acid, bituminous coal, fallout, printer's ink, laundry starch, drain deaner, blue chrysotile asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.
They've been treating it with activated charcoal-in gastric lavage and enemas-and with trimethoprim.
So there were particulate beds to separate dusts and aerosols, activated charcoal to keep out heavier contaminants, chemi-sorbant beds to remove nitrogen, sulphur compounds, halogens and metal hybrids, and catalytic burners to oxidize anything that couldn't be absorbed.
Waste water from other sources - hygiene, the laundry and the air condensate - was cleaned up by a series of filters and packed columns of activated charcoal and resin beds.
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The water unit was a pump with a combination ceramic, activated charcoal, and silver filter that would take out bacteria and parasites.
His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air.
We had bottled oxygen, calcium oxide, and activated charcoal to last us a week.
Derec knew generally how it was made: it was a super form of black powder, using activated charcoal saturated with potassium nitrate or sodium nitrate.