Imagine a regular piece of charcoal, but give it a superpower. You “activate” it by exposing it to high heat or chemicals, creating millions of tiny pores.
Those pores are like a microscopic maze. One gram of activated carbon can have a surface area bigger than a football field. That’s a lot of hiding spots for pollutants to get trapped.
In short: it’s carbon on caffeine, ready to grab impurities by the throat.
