coconut shell charcoal

[vikingpyro]

I can get some cheap coconut shell charcoal. My question

is; is this charcoal suitable for pyro purposes. This is activated

organic carbon used for filtering purposes in the industry.

Is there any difference whether the charcoal is activated or not

when used in pyro?

[Mumbles]

Activated charcoal for the most part doesn't work as well. Filtering charcoal is cooked at high temperatures, treated with acid, and then cooked again. This results in many many pores in the charcoal. It also however results it low amounts of volatiles which makes the best charcoal.

 

The charcoal you can obtain will be pretty good, but not the best.

[tentacles]

I'd be curious to see if there's any correlation between good BP woods, and good woods that make good activated carbon. I suspect they would be somewhat opposite. ie - woods that make good carbon make poor BP charcoal. Coconut shell is supposed to make the best activated carbon. (also it leaches no phosphorous into water)

[DeAdFX]

I think activated charcoal will work ok for non-bp usages. I use activated charcoal in d1 glitter and it looks pretty nice in comparison to other d1 glitters...