My friend has been using one and they say it’s an “ozone cleaner” and that it disinfects whatever you spray the water on?
Is this bullshit?
Here is the explanation from the website: Ozone spray is the amazing, easy-to-use cleaner, sanitizer and disinfectant made from just tap water. This patented ozone spray machine takes ordinary water then electrifies it, creating aqueous ozone, an earth-friendly, totally safe and chemical free spray to clean and sanitize countertops, floors, windows, door handles and any hard surfaces in your home or business. The EnozoPRO (Hygeia) aqueous ozone sprayer is battery operated and kills 99.9% of bacteria and common viruses in only 30 seconds
In: Chemistry
TLDR: It’s nonsense. If it worked, it would be quite toxic and corrosive.
I mean as is, it is probably “safe, earth friendly and chemical free” (as in little chemical reaction will happen if you spray just water at most surfaces)
If it worked as advertised, it would be toxic, environmentally hazardous and one of the more aggressive chemical reactants in existence.
Ozone can be used as a disinfectant. For specific applications, by people who know what they’re doing.
Giving them ALL the benefits of doubt for their basic principle, they could “electrify the water” to split off oxygen, further apply electricity to make ozone from that and then pipe it through the remaining water to dissolve it. Ozone is poorly soluble in water, that wouldn’t work well. And it decomposes rather quickly in air, and even more rapidly in water. So it would be anything but stable.
~~(I just noticed the process I just described involves putting an electrical arc to form ozone through freshly split oxygen and hydrogen. That would be terrifying.)~~ Checking the actual product they claim to use a diamond catalyst, which hypothetically would make this a one step process. Still a scam that popped up to take advantage of the pandemic.
It would be easier, relatively safer and more effective to make the ozone from air oxygen and pipe it directly onto the surface that’s to be sanitized.
Either way, still a not great idea in a living space. At best it stinks and gives you a headache. That’s a good indicator though if it does anything. Does the final product smell?
I doubt they do any of that to start with though. It’s snake oil. Well, not even that. Snake water.
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