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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-15-08 09:56 PM
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1 tsp of activated carbon has a surface are of one acre
Imagine that!

Science is fucking cool.

1 gram of it has a surface area of about a football field.

And activated carbon works by adsorption (no, that's not a typo - adsorption, not absorption). Another reason that science is fucking cool!

I hate this country.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-15-08 09:57 PM
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1. Why do you hate ....
oh. I see you already answered that.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-15-08 11:04 PM
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2. Send it to college and that'll become one wise acre
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-15-08 11:43 PM
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3. A smart real estate agent would make floors out of that stuff,
and sell 1 bdrm apartments as a million sq ft.
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