If charring begins to happen, turn down the heat and flip the meat.
The tests range from small scale charring tests (cone calorimeter) to large scale furnace tests.
But lightning is a much higher energy plasma than that which makes crop circles (where no charring occurs ).
During burning, antimony trioxide promotes charring of the resin, which reduces the formation of volatile gases.
Having the same Greek origin are the scientific words "empyreuma" and "empyreumatic," applied to the characteristic smell of burning or charring vegetable or animal matter.