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Ozone Machines.

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Well, I own one. I was convinced by somebody on this forum to get it, and I love it dearly.

Anyway, I want to know exactly why and how they work. I am having troubles finding sources that don't use big flashy gifs. Those flashy gifs usually set of my woo-woo alarms.

So, help?
 
Animations prove everything, from why shampoo works, how detergent makes dishes extra squeeky, and how maxi-pads do their, um, thingy with the thing.

As far as air quality, I have lots of plants. I don't know if it is really the plants that are like filters, or it is just me imagining it. I make regular trips to the countryside, which again, is it better air, or just me imagining it?

-Who
 
All plants clean the air, it's part of being a plant.

Clean air also exists in the countryside because of the lack of large amounts of concentrated pollution being stuffed into the atmosphere. A lot of the particles that are suspended don't move very quickly, and a lot of cities are built in river basins, so cities have natty air.
 
You know I think the ozone machine has nothing to do with the quality of my air now, and it is entirely a product of my systems high quality filters.

This site, which is a trusted source, tells me that there is no real benefit to ozone at ALL.

Well, I have now turned off that functionality. I am still out the 50 extra dollars it cost to install it with the central air system.
 
Ozone is composed of three atoms of oxygen (written as O3) bound together. Ozone is not stable. It is very reactive with other elements (O3 very much wants to become O2). Ozone is described (Encyclopedia Britannica) as an irritating, pale blue gas that is explosive and toxic, even at low concentrations. It is used as a bleaching agent for organic compounds; as a strong germicide to sterilize drinking water as well as to remove objectionable odors and flavors.
 
Ozone for drinking water sterilization is more popular in europe, while most of the U.S. uses chlorine. Ozone used in this way kills the germs, but breaks down quickly so does not leave a taste in the water. To make this work you have to remove anything from the water that bacteria could live on, or else they would grow downstream from the water plant.
 
I personally would not have an ozone producing machine.

virtually everything in your house that is electric will emit ozone top a greater or lesser extent, the biggest in my house seems to be the charger for an electric drill.

Can I ask why you have one? or would want one? Ozone is a pollutant at low levels in the atmosphere, extremely corrosive and not very nice stuff to have about in your house for a healthy atmosphere.

As for working, put very simply electric discharge breaks up O2 into 2 O' (can't find the right symbol) and a number of these join up in lots of 3 to give O3. As far as I am concerned the best place for them, is in NOx analysers.
 
A swimming pool in Ringwood about eight km from Mooroolbark uses ozone instead of chlorine.
Are we being slowly poisoned and corroded away?
 
Ozone is produced by passing an electric discharge through gaseous oxygen, turning the usual O2 molecule into an O3 molecule.

The result is an unstable molecule with a dipole moment and an affinity to bond with other dipole molecules (proteins in bacteria, etc.). The bonding results in the dissociation of ozone into free oxygen gas and one free radical oxygen atom. The free oxygen then bonds strongly with other materials, oxydizing them and in effect "burning" the cootie.

The concentration of ozone that can be supported in water is very small, constantly diminishing over time. New ozone nees to be added to keep concnetrations high enough for anti-microbal properties. In fact, only 0.004g of oxygen can diffuse into 100g of water at 25 C. Since ozone only forms a small percentage of the diffused oxygen, the amount is very small indeed. But it's effective against microbes.

It's unlikely that the concentrations are large enough to cause any harm, especially since the decomposition rate of ozone is pretty quick.
 
cootien. slang A body louse (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
 
Ozone polution IMHO appears to be an overblown panic-driven misconception. Higher doses do cause problems (sore eyes, and upper airway irritation) but low doses cause very few problems.

I did some research before buying a small ozone generator for odour-control in part of my house and have had no problems from it at all: it works very well.

If you're thinking of getting an ozone generator do some research yourself and then make an educated intelligent decision.
 
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