activated charcoal

1. 1.

   powdered or granular carbon used for purifying by adsorption; given orally (as a slurry) it is an antidote for some kinds of poisons

   Synonymsactivated carbon

   Broadercarbon

Questions about activated charcoal

What does activated charcoal mean?

activated charcoal means "powdered or granular carbon used for purifying by adsorption; given orally (as a slurry) it is an antidote for some kinds of poisons".

What is another word for activated charcoal?

Close synonyms include activated carbon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is activated charcoal a common word?

activated charcoal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.