Editing Bone char (section)

==In popular culture==
* The production of bone char was featured on the [[Discovery Channel]]'s TV series ''[[Dirty Jobs]]'', on episode 19 of season 5, "Bone Black", originally broadcast on 9 February 2010.<ref name="Dirty Jobs: Episode Guide"/>
* Human bone char, referred to as "bone charcoal", is mentioned in [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s novel ''[[The Crying of Lot 49]]''. The bones come from US soldiers who died in combat during WWII and were buried in a lake in Italy, and the char is used for filters in cigarettes.
* Human bone char is mentioned in [[Jaroslav Hašek]]'s novel ''[[The Good Soldier Švejk]]''. The work contains a reference to soldiers not dying in vain because their bones will be used to make bone charcoal ("[[spodium]]") for sugar refineries, the protagonist getting disciplined by his commander for wondering whether the coal from officers' bones is sold to the refineries at a higher price than that made from ordinary privates' bones.