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Brian Sandle (bsandle@southern.co.nz) wrote:
: E. Grant Pike (grel@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: : In <46tqnl$iet@southern.co.nz> bsandle@southern.co.nz (Brian Sandle)
: : writes: 
: : >
: : >I suspect some fluorescent light tubes, though possibly the fittings,
: : emit 
: : >an odour which is irritating to lungs as well as nasal passages.
: : >
: : >Is there data on that?
I've had another email suggesting ozone as a possible irritant that I am 
experiencing.

I omitted to say that the tube is a Philips colour 96. It has three 
phosphors and the light is consequently much whiter - good for comparing 
colours. It is supposed to be about 96% approximate to light from blue 
sky, but I think it has a little more ultaviolet. That makes me wonder if 
indeed there is ozone being produced photochemically. I could not smell 
anything, but you don't expect to if you have a cold. But perhaps the 
vapours from my cold might have been acted upon photochemically.


In the past when I have noticed a smell from a fluorescent light fitting 
it was a fairly pungent sort of smell, with perhaps something like a 
lemon sort of tinge.

Thinking to do. I like this light, it seems to have helped my health - 
joints and muscles, perhaps glands, too. But I wonder if it is UV or very 
low dose ozone giving me more oxygen.

The smell is not like ozone that I know from sparking electric motors, or a
damp TV which hisses for a few minutes when turned on.

Brian Sandle. Shell to snail? bsandle@southern.co.nz