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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Dear Erin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Interesting. I asked my daughter-in-law Minaxshi who comes from Dar Es Salaam if she had ever heard of that. She said people eat charcoal but she have not seem them tasting it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Char is pretty inert so one of the only things people could taste would be to detect the pH. Perhaps if it has a lot of volatiles that is possible (compared with inert carbon).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Crispin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Actually, when I wrote non-standard measurement, I was thinking of grading charcoal. I have heard multiple accounts of householders in Africa who quickly taste the charcoal that vendors are offering before they buy it. These ladies in Africa have found that there's a distinctive taste to good quality biomass charcoal, and look for that as an indicator of quality when they are buying. If I had a good way to measure that, then I think we'd have a pretty sophisticated measure of that char, and a better understanding of what that consumer is looking for in a good stove. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Erin Rasmussen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="mailto:erin@trmiles.com">erin@trmiles.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>