Re: Need Ozone

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Parpp807-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 4/1/01 11:19:04 PM Central Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

<< Also, many food crops are damaged by ground-level ozone each year.
  >>
Mike,

I wonder if you can offer any evidence for the above statement
This topic flares frequently on the Tesla list and is generally on-topic 
because ozone is readily produced by electrical discharge. 

Ozone is a powerful oxidizer and a very hazardous gas. But the one thing I 
have 
never heard in these discussions is what constitutes a hazardous 
concentration,
and especially, what levels of concentration may be expected in the operation 
of Tesla coils. Ozone (O3) is so very reactive that most of it is quickly 
recombined with oxygen (O2)
as the O3 concentration rises. 

So IMHO, the important question of defining concentration
levels of interest to Tesla folk remains unanswered.

Happy day,
Ralph Zekelman