• Christian Friedrich Schönbein

Ozone (O3) Gas

  • HISTORY OF O3 GAS (OZONE GAS)

  • In 1785, the Dutch chemist Martinus Van Marum was conducting experiments involving electrical sparking above water when he noticed an unusual smell, which he attributed to the electrical reactions, failing to realize that he had in fact created ozone.

    A half century later, Christian Friedrich Schonbein, noticed the same pungent odour and recognized it as the smell often following a bolt of lightning. In 1839, he succeeded in isolating the gaseous chemical and named it ‘ozone’, from the Greek word ozein (ὄζειν) meaning ‘to smell’. For this reason, Shonbein is generally credited with the discovery of ozone. The formula for ozone O3 was not determined until 1865 by Jacques-Louis Soret and confirmed by Schonbein in 1867.

  • WHAT IS O3 GAS (OZONE GAS)

  • Ozone or Trioxygen is an inorganic molecule with the chemical formula O3. It is a pale blue gas with a distinctively pungent smell. It is an allotrope of oxygen that is much less stable than the diatomic allotrope O2, breaking down in the lower atmosphere to O2. (dioxygen) Ozone is formed from dioxygen by the action of ultraviolet (UV) light and electrical discharged within the Earth’s atmosphere. It is present in very low concentrations throughout the latter, with its highest concentration high in the ozone layer of the atmosphere, which absorbs most of the Sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

  • OZONE (O3): COVID-19 Chemistry

  • Ozone is a naturally occurring gas created from Oxygen atoms. The oxygen molecule is made up of two oxygen atoms. These oxygen molecules are broken into atoms by the corona discharge during lightning storms or by UV light from the Sun. Single oxygen atoms cannot exist alone without regrouping back into di-atomic oxygen molecules. During this recombination stage some atoms will regroup into loosely bonded tri-atomic oxygen. This new molecule is called Ozone or O3.

    The antipathogenic effects of ozone have been substantiated for several decades. Its killing action upon bacteria, viruses, fungi, and in many species of protozoa, serves as the basis for its increasing use as a Disinfectant.

    Most research efforts on Ozone’s virucidal effect have centered upon ozone’s propensity to break apart lipid molecules at sites of multiple bond configuration. Indeed once the lipid envelope of the virus is fragmented; its DNA or RNA core cannot survive.

    Ozone gas has been proved to kill the SARS coronavirus and since the structure of the new 2019-nCoV coronavirus is almost identical to that of the SARS coronavirus, recent researches in Japan etc. recommend the use of ozone as a Disinfectant against Corona Virus.

    Ozone generators are able to make ozone from normal air and are normally used as room disinfectants.

  • Is Ozone Safe?

  • US FDA allows Ozone as a germicide for disinfection purposes

    Ozone leavesnoharmful residuals that need to be removed after the disinfection process.

    Ozone gets converted into Oxygen (O2) rapidly; fill the area where disinfection was carried out

    There should not be any human presence during the short period of usage of the disinfection device. At the same time, all the household materials/office stationaries including computers etc. can be kept as it is, inside the room.

    When the Ozone (O3) turns back to normal Oxygen (O2) in approx: 10 minutes, we can return back to the area where Disinfection was carried outand experience Virus-Free, Germ-Free and Odor- Free environment.

  • Is Ozone Disinfection Effective?

  • Ozone is nature’s most powerful Disinfectant killing up to 99% of bacteria, viruses, allergens, moulds and other pollutants from both air and surfaces in any indoor environment.

    Ozone disinfection is over 50% more effective than using chemicals and over 3,000 times faster acting than disinfection with other chemical preparations.

Studies On Ozone (O3)