Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Air Cleaners Message-ID: <4727@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 14:53:39 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.4727 Posted: Wed Sep 19 14:53:39 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 20:55:07 EDT References: <3609@tektronix.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 11 Watch out for those god awful ION generators. Someone once came up with the great idea that Ozone is good for you. It was a big favorite of the quack medicine show people. Ozone is not good for you, your house plants, or anything made of rubber. I did a research project (back when I was still a biology student) on the effects of ozone on plants. It doesn't take that high of a concentration to make them sick. It also turns out that a big tire wharehouse out in California was using ozone generators and it was some time before they found out why all the tires were rotting. -Ron