Charcoal is imported for a variety of purposes, including barbecues and shisha pipes (water bubble pipes).
Self-heating potentialBecause charcoal is porous, a lot of surface area is available for reactions with oxygen and/or air. Therefore, charcoal has the potential to self-heat. This has mostly been observed in containers in recent years. Some charcoal tablets used in shisha pipes are not made entirely of charcoal; instead, they may also contain impurities like metal filings and hydrocarbon...
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