Ranbir lives in a village and uses wood as a fuel. He studied in this school that charcoal is a better fuel than wood.
Ranbir lives in a village and uses wood as a fuel. He studied in this school that charcoal is a better fuel than wood. He decided to use charcoal instead of wood.
(i) How can Ranbir obtain charcoal from wood ?
(ii) Why is charcoal considered as better fuel than wood ? Give two reasons.
(iii) State the values that prompted this action of Ranbir.
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(i) Charcoal can be produced by cutting trees, 1 kg of wood on destructive distillation produces only 0.25 kg of charcoal.
(ii) (a) Charcoal has high calorific value.
(b) Charcoal does not produce any smoke.
(iii) No regard for environment, disregard for health.
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