Look at your deodorant while putting it on your armpit tomorrow morning.
Look at your ozone-producing ionizing air cleaner and photocopier when you go into the office.
They combine to produce
Ultra Fine Particles that you inhale, and then they migrate to every organ.
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Right off the bat? The non-ozone producing #corsirosenthalbox, does remove UFPs AND volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
So should any HEPA.
BUT.
You will inhale them because your body has a thermal plume from your body.
Sorry for the long setup. You need to read this,
but I did not want to be click-baity.
So, deodorant, hand lotion, body spray, perfume, spray shampoo - and most likely anything that has a fragrance produces VOCs.
"Monoterpenes, in particular, are known to react with ozone inside, forming secondary organic aerosols (SOAs)."
Your fragrant ________ (insert Old Spice, Axe Body Spray, No. 5 Chanel, etc,), produces VOCs. They hit ozone and react. Turn into aerosols.
That clump up into UFPs. And your thermal body plume carries up for you to breathe them in.
Size illustration below.
Is it me, Mr. Clean Air, just freaking out?
You judge - here are the scientists.
It IS difficult to hear that.
Source
newsweek.com/volatile-chemi…
Study
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…
Supplemental
pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1…
But it has to hit ozone, right? Where does THAT come from?
Some definitely comes from outside. But that is short-lived, albeit, if it's always coming in ?
But ionizing air cleaners produce a ton of ozone - whether in-duct or portable air cleaners.
I know there will be a ton of questions. I think
. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
the most common ones will be....
How to tell if my product has monoterpenes? If it has a fragrance, it probably does.
How to tell how much ozone is there?
They sell Ozone Detectors on Amazon.
But, cheap may not be best.
Here's a good article, but
smartairfilters.com/en/blog/are-lo…
maybe
@akm5376 @Poppendieck @kate_cole_ @sri_srikrishna @marwa_zaatari @JimRosenthal4
know of any good, but cheap ozone detectors? Thank you either way!
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