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
If they were “electrolyzing water to make ozone” they would also be creating a bunch of hydrogen gas. Ozone gas also has a smell to it—it’s part of the smell you get when there’s a thunderstorm and it’s sort of similar to chlorine. People can smell it at very low concentrations, so it should be noticeable if there’s even 0.1 part per million getting into the air. In addition, ozone is destructive to many materials so you’d see similar effects to spraying a dilute hydrogen peroxide solution on everything—notably, using it a lot would cause bleaching in lots of fabrics after a while.
I’m betting that the product is a complete hoax.
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