RE: Teslas enjoyment of ozone.

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Original poster: "Mike Wood by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mike.wood-at-opennw-dot-com>


>Hey once i enclosed my gap with a clear plastic bottle to try to cut 
>noise...after runing it i noticed a yellow cloud?Gas? Inside that seemed to

>be heavier than air...What was this?It had a STRONG sharp smell to it...


most likely a mixture of nitrogen oxides - nitrogen dioxide is
reddish-brown, nitric oxide is clear, so maybe a cloud of both might be
orangey yellowy.

nitrogen dioxide is particularly bad for sniffing incidentally - it's toxic
and damages lung tissue - probably by dissolving into fluid on mucous
membranes and making nitrous or nitric acid.  Hence the sharp smell, I
guess.


Mike
Wellington, NZ