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coffeebeqnyesterday at 7:54 PM2 repliesview on HN

Photocopiers smell like ozone when they run if anyone’s forgotten the smell


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saltcuredyesterday at 8:45 PM

I also associate ozone with some electric motors, I think because they have brushes that arc during operation. Older power tools I encountered in the 1980s often did this, and you could see the blue arc if you looked into the vents at the right angle.

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Benderyesterday at 7:56 PM

Photocopiers smell like ozone when they run if anyone’s forgotten the smell

Those are similar but sweeter. If I sterilize a room with UV it has a very distinct smell like nothing else aside from lightening and stun guns. I would UV the bathroom right now but then I have to vent the entire house and its 34F outside right now.

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