Quote Originally Posted by old kodger View Post
"Caveat: Ozone has some bad side effects to humans apart from killing viruses, too...
While producing ozone outta air with a corona-discharge unit, you also get N2 as a by-product,
which can be irritating/ harmful to your respiratory system."

As a result of this post, I did a small amount of research. Lets look at N2, N is a nitrogen atom, but is unstable and requires another N atom to pair with, because N has three unpaired electrons. Pairing with another N atom satisfies the requirement of both N2 IS nitrogen as found in the atmosphere and it's concentration in the atmosphere is 78%.
Now my question is: - how can a naturally occurring element (7 on the periodic table), being more than 3/4 of the atmosphere, "be irritating/ harmful to your respiratory system" ?
I can comprehend however, that because big pharma can't patent ozone, in keeping with their historical performance, they would "lobby" to have a scare tactic thrown into the works to inhibit people from using it. As I said in my last post, I'm sill alive and kicking.....with no signs of respitary distress.
I believe that the corona discharge actually produces N2O, nitrous oxide, which binds with the haemoglobin in our blood and does not release the way oxygen and carbon dioxide do. This has the effect of making those haemoglobin complexes unavailable for O2/CO2 transport.