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The process of burning wood in limited supply of oxygen to obtain charcoal as a resultant product is called:

  1. Fractional distillation
  2. Azeotropic distillation
  3. Destructive distillation
  4. Simple distillation

A
Destructive distillation
B
Azeotropic distillation
C
Fractional distillation
D
Simple distillation
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The process in which a solid material (usually coal or wood) is heated at high temperature out of contact with air to make coke, coal tar, or charcoal. It is called 'destructive' because the chemical composition of the end product is distinctly different from that of the input material.

Hence, option A is correct.

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