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Charring is the chemical process of incomplete or interrupted combustion of solids when subjected to high heat intensities.

When we subject a solid to heat, charring interferes in a way that it removes gases (usually hydrogen and oxygen), resulting in a char composes only from carbon. Examples of carbonaceous material that result from charring are coke fuel, charcoal, and [rarely] black coal, when we apply high values of heat on wood and raw coal.

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