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RE: Ozone levels

Original poster: "David Trimmell" <humanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This has indeed been discussed here many times at length. O3 is quite
pungent and NOx's are quite different smelling, just crack that bottle of
HNO3 and gently wave your hand over the top towards your nose (DO NOT try to
sniff it directly!). Having much experience with both NOx's and O3 I can
tell the differences and relative ratios somewhat like a good wines. Albeit
quite toxic ones! By the way, my PlasmaSonic running at ~340 KHz with a 4"
diameter wire loop discharge terminal by far produces the most O3 of any
coil I have made in recent history. VTTC's, especially CW ones will produce
good volumes of NOx's. It is quite a fascinating subject, the subject of the
chemistry of the "arc"...

Regards,

David Trimmell

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 4:39 PM
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Ozone levels

Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

"Don't forget that what you smell is not ozone (it is odourless) but
various
nitrogen/oxygen compounds.

Peter"

	I think you're right about the NOx compounds, but think ozone does
have
an odor.  Seems to me this has been discussed here before.  Certainly
when a germicidal UV lamp is operated there's a characteristic "warm"
smell in the vicinity which isn't the same as the more acrid smell from
an operating TC.

Ed