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Charcoal has been used since the earliest times for a range of purposes including art and medicine, but by far its most important use has been as a metallurgical fuel. Charcoal is the traditional fuel of a blacksmith' s forge and other applications where an intense heat is wanted. Charcoal was also used historically as a source of carbon black by grinding it up. In this form charcoal was important to early chemists and was a constituent of formulas for mixtures such as gunpowder. Due to its high surface area charcoal can be used as a filter, as a catalyst or as an absorbent.

Charcoal is used in the emergency treatment of certain kinds of poisoning.it helps to prevent the poison from being absorbed from the stomach into the body. Some activated charcoal products contains sorbitols.it also works as a laxative, for elimination of the poison from the body.