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How Does a Charcoal Filter Work
What are charcoal filters, and how can they help you? Well charcoalitself is carbon, compressed carbon that has formed into a solidform. Now carbon, unlike many other gasses and chemicals, is notharmful to the human body, even if ingested. The harm carbon can dois if you work if a coal mill, the black lung is a very commondisease made from carbon, but if you don’t work in a coal mill yourpretty much safe from carbon, after all the human body is composedof carbon. Now activated charcoal (otherwise known as charcoalfilters) is when charcoal has been treated with oxygen, whencharcoal is treated with oxygen it will then thousands and forbigger pieces sometimes millions of tiny little pores open up thenmaking that piece of charcoal an absorbent.
What is an absorbent? An absorbent is a material, solid, liquid, orgas that absorbs other chemicals. Water is probably the most wellknown and most common absorbent. There are many other materialsthat are very common that are well known absorbents. Absorbentsalso make up what most filters are, absorbing other harmfulmaterials to keep them away from the human nostrils or the humanbody. Absorbents are used in a wide variety of filters such asthings like, gas purification, gold purification, metal extraction,water purification, medicine, sewage treatment, and air filters ingas masks. Let’s take a gas mask for example. When you breathe inall the harmful toxins in the air a gas mask filters out all thebad materials and keeps only the good healthy oxygen, the filterabsorbs the bad chemicals. Same with water filters, when water goesthrough a treatment facility the filters absorb the bad thingswithin the water and filter it out to become just normal H2O. Allthose things I just mentioned are all in some way a form of anactivated carbon.
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