Ozone and particulate filters

A sciency question.

I'd like to spend time in an ozone heavy area without burning the shit out of my lungs.

I think (but don't know) that the safe zone can be determined by smell. Light rainforest, you're fine. Smells like bleach (indoor pool)? Get the fuck out!

I use a flu virus mask and gloves. When the gas passes through the mask, I can only ASSUME (looking for validation or reasoned contradiction) that the majority of ozone is reacting with the mask and anything in it, and what makes it into my lungs is much weaker.

I make this statement on taste/smell/lung reaction and nothing more. More info please?

Personalty I don't take any chance with my Ozone generator, it got a built-in timer so when I have to use it I set it for and hour & leave making sure that my doggies are lock out of the house, when I come back 3-4 hours later the ozone as done it's job and disipated

Don't breath the ozone - no normal mask will help much and the reactions with the fibers in the mask won't help you much. BTW, ozone will react with the fluids in your eyes as well

Ok, I'll give it the 30 minute wipe window. I just like it for PC unloads.

It always runs behind the wall, so anything I put in the glove area is killed soon enough, and that area is SEALED. I can't smell any ozone unless I open up the zipper door.

canndo said:

Don't breath the ozone - no normal mask will help much and the reactions with the fibers in the mask won't help you much. BTW, ozone will react with the fluids in your eyes as well

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How about a pesticide mask? For organophosphates?

testtime said:

How about a pesticide mask? For organophosphates?

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Ozone is trioxygen - it isn't a very big molecule, consisting of three atoms of the same element. While I suspect there is something that would cause it to react - as it is a very reactive substance, I don't think that your normal particulate or solvent masks will do much good. Frankly I can't see the benifit of ozone for sterility and have used mine only for odors - which, with a plenum chamber works quite well, but I have not grown anything that smells for a long time - hell, not even my worm farm smells anymore.

canndo said:

Frankly I can't see the benifit of ozone for sterility

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I have a glove box with shelves in it. It take days of PCing to fill it before I start noccing. Trust me when I say it is very nice to have an area that when you put things into it, they become sterile. I can leave a jar of PCed grain open for a week in there without anything growing in it.

I used to worry about causing an explosion with all the lysol in there and then lighting the alcohol lamp. No more. Nothing sprayed at all. And the ozone does NOT affect the contents of jars when they have a filter lid on it. I had 2 jars, just emptied, side by side. I put 1 lid back on. the next day, I took the jars out and sniffed. The open one had a hint of bleach, then it was gone, and then nothing. The closed one (but with a GE filter on it) was strong mushroom smell.

Maybe I'll try it.