activated carbon

[Tengu]

was given half a 3.5 litre tub

any esoteric use for it?

aside from pellets for a very mini bbq????

(its designed for filters for fish ponds BTW)

 

[Graham_S]

Decontaminating chemical warfare strikes?

 

[Toddy]

This stuff is also used inside a homemade water purifier.
Take one metre of drainpipe, and scour it out thoroughly. Tape a bit of very fine mesh net ( or a piece of spatter guard) over one end, that we'll call the bottom.
Fill the tube with the charcoal and fasten it upright to the edge of a cupboard over hanging a worktop.
Pour in a jug of tap water and put the jug underneath the tube. Out comes (supposedly) clean, de-chlorinated drinking water.

So I'm told anyway, by a friend who had one of these taped to the side of her horrendously expensive bespoke kitchen, when I asked why she had a drainpipe there ???

cheers,
M

 

[Nagual]

Aye, good for cleaning stinky water or stinky air.

 

[_mark_]

Aye, good for cleaning stinky water or stinky air.

Don't forget bowels!

 

[EdS]

gunpowder - but i didn't say that

 

[Ph34r]

Defending your castle...

 

[Tengu]

how can the water be clean if its full of soot, eh?