Activated Carbon in HEPA Air Purifiers

Are you an aquarium hobbyist, or own a water purification system? If not, chances are you have no idea what activated carbon is, or what it could possibly do in HEPA Air Purifiers. Even if the concept itself isn't totally foreign, you probably still don't know exactly what it does. Although the activated carbon is a physically small part of the HEPA air filter, the role it plays in filtering the air is huge.  It is solely responsible for filtering odors and chemicals out of the air that passes through your HEPA air purifier.   Many people don't even really know what carbon is, which is rather ironic since we humans are carbon based organisms, just like every other living thing on this planet.  In fact, the only type of life that we know about is carbon based.