Re: Tesla's enjoyment of ozone.

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Original poster: "David Speck by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dave-at-davidspeckmd-dot-org>

Robert,
You might get short wave UV from N2, but Hg is a lot more efficient at 
making it.  I have a short wave UV germicidal lamp, fits into a 15" 
fluorescent housing, which I used to erase EPROMs once upon a time.  I 
know that long wave UV would work, but This tube was about $2.00 on the 
surplus market, and would erase the chips quickly.  It would produce 
copious amounts of ozone in operation.  I used to run it in a different 
room when I would erase chips, and the room would smell strongly of O3 
after a 10 minute bleach cycle.

I thought that atmospheric O3 came from the direct action of solar UV 
upon atmospheric O2.  I'm not sure that N2 has any role in the reaction.

Dave

Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: "robert heidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com>
>
>Dave: My experience  with OZONE generation is to pass high voltage through a
>glass tube as air washes the arc. No I dont mean an arc within a glass tube.
>I use a conductor coil inside a 1" glass tube and a conductor coil on the
>outside of the glass tube with air or ox passing through the tube. This
>produces large amounts of ozone and has a blue glow. No mercury, just N2 to
>produce short wave UV as it dose in our blue sky excited by the sun.
>   Robert  H
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>>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>>Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 17:08:21 -0600
>>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>>Subject: Re: Tesla's enjoyment of ozone.
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>>Resent-Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 17:26:30 -0600
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>>Original poster: "David Speck by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
>><dave-at-davidspeckmd-dot-org>
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>>The tube is most likely a short wave UV mercury arc discharge tube.
>>Mercury has strong emission lines in the UV and they will produce ozone
>>by ionizing atmospheric O2
>>Dave
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>>>Anyone got an idea what
>>>gas might give this blue color?
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