Difference between Fusain and Charcoal

What is the difference between Fusain and Charcoal?

Fusain as a noun is fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement. while Charcoal as a noun is impure carbon obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of oxygen.

Fusain

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement. A drawing made with it.

Charcoal

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Impure carbon obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of oxygen.A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.A drawing made with charcoal.A very dark gray colour.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: of a dark gray colour.

Example sentence: I prefer lump charcoal over briquettes but I do use both for different reasons and different recipes and sometimes I combine them both when I really want the woodsy aroma from the lump charcoal and long, even heat from the briquettes.

We hope you now know whether to use Fusain or Charcoal in your sentence.

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