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Old Apr 14, 2020 | 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by davyjordi
activated carbon filters are far more commonplace than charcoal-containing filters. a quick search on amazon only showed one filter that contains charcoal that fits our cars and it wasn't rated very highly amongst the plethora of activated carbon filters that fit the IS range of cars. i think you may be thinking of activated carbon.
LOL... They are the same thing. The correct term is activated charcoal. Overseas they call it carbon. Same exact thing
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Old Apr 14, 2020 | 07:02 PM
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LOL... They are the same thing. The correct term is activated charcoal. Overseas they call it carbon. Same exact thing
sorry bud, but they aren't the same -- while charcoal contains carbon, they aren't one and the same.

see this for an in-depth explanation: https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/...arcoal-filters
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Old Apr 14, 2020 | 08:26 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon

and this is from your link "If you said activated charcoal or activated carbon anyone would know what you were talking about, but activated charcoal is more proper as the material is in fact charcoal, NOT carbon."... lolololol

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Old Apr 15, 2020 | 03:37 AM
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Originally Posted by EvilJoker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon

and this is from your link "If you said activated charcoal or activated carbon anyone would know what you were talking about, but activated charcoal is more proper as the material is in fact charcoal, NOT carbon."... lolololol
right, so you just proved my point in that they are not one and the same. again, while charcoal contains carbon, it is not pure carbon. we are getting into semantics here, but they really aren't the same chemically. charcoal may contain other elements, while carbon is an element in and of itself solely. so sure, one may take either term with regard to filters and understand the general meaning, they aren't the same substance even though charcoal may contain solely carbon in certain controlled instances rather than other 'impurities'.

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