health hazords

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• Subject: health hazords
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• Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 23:22:10 -0500
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From:  Malcolm Watts [SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent:  Sunday, June 28, 1998 5:26 PM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: health hazords

Hi Michael,

> From:  Michael Tucknott [SMTP:Michael.Tucknott-at-virgin-dot-net]
> Sent:  Friday, May 08, 1998 11:50 AM
> To:  Tesla List
> Subject:  health hazords
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Does any one on the list know the effects of ozone on the human body?.

Yes. It is essentially a free radical and is extremely corrosive and 
damaging to living tissue. It also rusts tools.

> Also what other gasses are produced by an active Tesla coil and what
> harm can they do.

Nitrogen oxides which are also corrosive and like to mix with 
moisture in the air to form liquid acids.

> Is it possible for a coil to produce X-rays when experimenting with
> different objects on top of a coil and having the streamers
> discharging through them eg light bulbs/fluorescent tubes/radio 
> valve etc.

Yes.  Watch out particularly for heavy metals. These can be ionized 
several orbitals in whereupon the electron binding energies are 
sufficient to generate X-rays when the atoms return to their ground 
states.

Malcolm

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