Abstract
Diffuse reflectance Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy (DRIFT) has been used to characterise the chemical nature of a range of charcoals produced from different woods and with differing carbon contents. The technique is simple to perform and high quality spectra are reported for total carbon contents of up to 92.5%. The work shows that carbonisation of wood results in a graded change in chemical nature from a material rich in aliphatic structures to one dominated by aromatic domains as carbon content increases.
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