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Subject:Re: Charcoal Cannister Purpose
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:31:29 -0400

At 06:58 PM 10/27/2009, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>That sounds crazy using charcoal.  It works? If anything, I would try
>charcoal from the fish store first, but that's thinking outside the box.
>Thanks for the reply.

Activated charcoal from the fish store is the right stuff, assuming
.  BBQ charcoal is maybe a bit better than nothing.

I was wrong about the surface area of activated
charcoal/carbon.  Instead of an acre per teaspoon, it's more like
four tenths of an acre per tablespoon.  Still very impressive.

Yrs,
David