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bone char

bone char noun: bone black.

Noun

bone char (usually uncountable, plural bone chars)

  1. (usually) Bone black.
    • […] bone chars differ greatly in surface area. It has also been shown that the various nitrogen adsorption isotherms for bone chars could be plotted on a single curve. When the volume of gas adsorbed per unit area was plotted against[…]1944, Bone Char Research Project, Report for 1943-44 and the Five-year Period 1939-44 for the Research Project on the Fundamental Properties of Bone Char and Analogous Materials: Supplementary Report...
    • A drawback for the use of bone char was discovered by Bellack (40). During an investigation on the removal of fluoride with bone char on an arsenic-bearing water, Bellack observed that arsenic could also be removed by this material but that the arsenic-removal process was irreversible. Because...1978, M. T. Gillies, Drinking Water Detoxification, William Andrew, page 297

Forms of bone char

pluralbone chars

Questions about bone char

What does bone char mean?
Bone char means bone black.
What part of speech is bone char?
Bone char is a noun.
What is the plural of bone char?
The plural of bone char is bone chars.

Words near bone char in the dictionary

  1. bone ashes
  2. bone black
  3. bone box
  4. bone boxes
  5. bone cancer
  6. bone char
  7. bone chars
  8. bone china
  9. bone collector
  10. bone collectors
  11. Bone Creek

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