Re: Need Ozone

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Original poster: "cougercat by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <felix1063-at-home-dot-com>

Just my 1 1/2 cents worth...

Ozone is a very powerful oxidizer.  One can smell it in amounts at less than
1 part in 10,000,000.  In greater amounts, ozone will quickly eat away at
the mucus membranes that line your lungs.

There is a simple test that can detect ozone in less than 1 part in
1,000,000.  It consists of a piece of paper that has been moistened with a
starch emulsion containing a little sodium or potassium iodide.  In the
presents of ozone, the iodine is set free and impacts a blue color to the
starch. **

In 1997, OSHA decreased the amount of exposure time for ozone from .125 ppm
to .08ppm/8 hours and classified it as a "very toxic, dangerously reactive
oxidizing gas."

Tests have shown that Ozone can be detected by the human nose at .005 ppm;
with the average hovering around .0076 ppm..  At .100 ppm, it is easily
recognizable.

Do I follow the OSHA rules on ozone?  Nope - not really but is is just my 1
1/4 cents worth.

--jeff  :'


**  General College Chemistry; Sneed & Maynard  - Van Nostrand Press 1944













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Subject: Re: Need Ozone


> 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
>
>
>