| ▲ | Bender 4 hours ago |
| Photocopiers smell like ozone when they run if anyone’s forgotten the smell Those are similar but sweeter. If I sterilize a room with UV it has a very distinct smell like nothing else aside from lightening and stun guns. I would UV the bathroom right now but then I have to vent the entire house and its 34F outside right now. |
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| ▲ | rrr_oh_man 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Side quest: Can you tell more about the UV sterilisation thing? Why do you do that? How often? Where? It seems like such a specific thing to do. |
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| ▲ | Bender an hour ago | parent [-] | | I primarily use them in the bathroom to kill off mold and bacteria about once every 3 months. I open up the water heater closet, drawers, etc... then I fire one of them up. I've used them in other places but the more they are used the more I have to vent the house. |
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| ▲ | echelon 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I don't think any of you should want to be smelling Ozone. Diatomic oxygen is already a highly reactive fuel that is killing us and giving us cancer every single day. The ozone species is even more oxidative. Oxygen is how we move about the energy gradient, but it's also killing us. Ozone is worse. "Air purifiers" with ionization are probably not worth the squeeze. |
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| ▲ | dmurray 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Aside from "killing us and giving us cancer every single day", isn't "diatomic oxygen" the stuff we breathe every single minute and need to survive? I'm not normally one to miss the sarcastic or satirical posts, but this one seems oddly earnest. | | | |
| ▲ | Bender 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Absolutely. I vent the house after running UV lamps using a 4400 CFM air mover. I leave the house and run errands. I have 3 of these [1] They have a remote control that "arms" them and it starts beeping slow, the faster, then much faster then activates. It kills insects be destroying their lungs and entirely destroys mold, bacteria and even damages viral material. Hospitals run the same lamps in wings that they close down for sanitation. The entire area has to be 100% vented. [1] - https://www.amazon.com/AeraLight-Whole-Surface-UV-Sanitizer/... | | |
| ▲ | alfiedotwtf 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I worked for a germaphobe, and he put one of these ozone-injecting air purifiers in our tiny office. Every morning I would walk in and it felt like I was walking into a thunderstorm from the smell. No gunpowder, just thick ozone | | |
| ▲ | cyberax an hour ago | parent [-] | | In general, if you can smell ozone, you should NOT be in that place. |
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| ▲ | KennyBlanken 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The permissible exposure limit for ozone is 0.1 PPM. The IDLH (Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health) level for ozone is five ppm. That's half of chlorine which is 10 ppm. Most major brand air purifiers put out a very minimal amount; the ionization is beneficial because it makes the really tiny (and thus most hazardous) particles clump and fall/stick to surfaces faster. It's the offbrand units that generate lots of ozone to make people think they're "doing something", and commercial ozone generators for car/room deodorizing, that you have to be extremely careful with. Those need to be set up and then the room left for hours for the ozone to react with stuff, and then ventilated thoroughly. |
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| ▲ | LoganDark 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Brushed DC motors (as in some drills, toothbrushes, etc.) emit ozone. Some light switches also create ozone-producing electrical arcing if you hold them perfectly between the on and off positions, or slowly cross the midpoint. (Less easy with the newer-style, less accessible rocker switches.) |
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| ▲ | KennyBlanken 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The only thing you're doing by sterilizing your house like that is making your immune system weaker. Humans are built to withstand a constant assault on their immune systems. We couldn't have survived if we didn't. |
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| ▲ | Bender an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Don't worry I know what I am doing. | |
| ▲ | VoidWarranty an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Careful. The venn diagram bubble depicting your statement overlaps heavily with the anti-vaccine bubble. Its a bit naieve to claim that cleaning one's home will result in an extinction of enough microbes so as to be threatening to our immune system. | | |
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| ▲ | colechristensen 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You might be smelling the oxidation of biologicals via ozone and UV might have the same chemical effect |
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