Dear timothy42b:

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On Apr 11, 6:52 pm, "Bill Penrose" wrote:
I was involved in some experiments years ago with
removing the odor of cigarettes from 'no smoking'
rooms in hotels. Seems that maintaining 10 ppm
ozone for a few hours got rid of most odors without
a lot of damage to fabrics and so on.

I have been told that ozone generators work by
desensitizing your nose, rather than actually
reacting with the odor source.

I have not been able to find the source for that
statement though it seems reasonable.

Saying that a microwave cooks from the inside out sounds
reasonable, too. It still is not true.

Yes ozone will desensitize your nose... to the smell of ozone.
Enough of it will have other physiological effects as well.

Ozone will not *quite* pass from point of generation to either
double carbon bonds or less-than fully oxided sulfur without
passing through points in between. But it will come very close
to that.

David A. Smith