What was charcoal used for in the seventeenth century?

Answer 1

Until the 17th century, charcoal was made only for domestic use for smiths and for small-scale iron smelting, probably in small earthen pits or piles. Towns and castles of the 16th century often had their own professional burners.

The demand for charcoal primarily grew as large-scale iron works were established in the 17th century. A secondary growth market was as a constituent element of gunpowder.

Answer 2

Until a chap called Abraham Derby worked out how to use coke in the process of smelting iron in the 18th Century, massive amounts of charcoal was used.

It was also used for gunpowder.

Answer 3

It was used to produce heat. It's impossible to generate the heat with wood that can be generated from charcoal, so it would be impossible to forge things out of metals without using charcoal as a heating source. It also can be burned at a slow steady rate.

It was also used in gunpowder, a medication for stomach upsets, for writing and drawing.

Answer 4

In the Seventeenth Century, fines from beech charcoal were mixed with herbs and tallow (animal fat) to make soap.

Answer 5

Single most common use- heat for cooking. It burns steady, for a long time. Until petrochemicals (oils and derivatives) it was an still in a lot of the not yet developed world, the main souce for cooking.

Answer 6

Apart from its use in artwork it was still being used widely in iron (metal) smelting - until someone discovered how to make coke from coal.

Answer 7

as a cosmetics to cover the interdental areas,especially for women.it gave them a more contrasting white teeth

Answer 8

Smelting and working metal.

It burns hot, bright and relatively clean.

Answer 9

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