charcoalized

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adjective

That has been converted to charcoal.

Scrabble 29

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of charcoalize
adjectivecharcoalized (comparative more charcoalized, superlative most charcoalized)

comparative more charcoalized · superlative most charcoalized

  1. That has been converted to charcoal.

    Note the fluid-escape pipes emanating from a charcoalized log.

    2006, William Scott, Cynthia Gardner, Graziella Devoli, Antonio Alvarez, “The A.D. 1813 Eruption of Volcán Cosigüina, Nicaragua”, in William Ingersoll Rose, editor, Special Paper 412: Volcanic Hazards in Central America, Geological Society of America, page 179
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    1981, Richard B. Waitt, Jr., Devastating Pyroclastic Density Flow and Attendant Air Fall of May 18, Peter W. Lipman, Donal R. Mullineaux (editors), The 1980 Eruptions of Mount St. Helens, Washington, Geological Survey Professional Paper 1250, United States Geological Survey, page 453, Wood incorporated into layer A1 near the volcano ranges from unbaked fragments to vitreous charcoal, but highly charcoalized wood occurs only in the northeast and west-northwest sectors within 10 km of the volcano.

    2003, Kate E. Zeigler, Taphonomic Analysis of the Snyder Quarry, Kate E. Zeigler, Andrew B. Heckert, Spencer G. Lucas (editors), Bulletin 24: Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Triassic (Revueltian) Snyder Quarry, New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, page 49, Scanning electron microscopy of the charcoalized wood shows that the internal structure of the cell walls has been homogenized.

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