This makes Ozone is a highly reactive substance that bonds with odours and pollutants to quickly oxidise them. There are no chemicals applied in this process, and Ozone treatment leaves no residue.
Ozone occurs in nature with its highest levels in clean air environments such as mountains, near waterfalls, when lightning has occurred, and on ocean shores with crashing waves.
Oxygen usually occurs in the form of O2, which means that there are two oxygen atoms in each molecule. Whereas the ozone (O3) molecule possesses three atoms, which makes it chemically unstable.
This means when released into the air the Ozone is chemically attracted to toxic elements, viruses, bacteria and pathogens, oxidising and neutralising them in the process. Being a gas Ozone can disinfect and decontaminate all the areas you are treating, not just the surfaces, meaning that hidden and harmful pathogens can be eliminated.
As Ozone treats the odours and contaminants it oxidises and reverts back to oxygen, and so it is an environmentally friendly way of removing the toxins and odours, and because Ozone has such an extremely high oxidisation strength it is able to eliminate odours faster and more completely than other agents.
Viruses have been studied during their interaction with ozone (Roy et al., 1981).
After 30 seconds of exposure to the correct density of ozone gas, 99% of the viruses were inactivated and demonstrated damage to their envelope proteins.
Ozone has proven itself to be a safe, reliable method of removing odours and creating a safe environment free of toxins and pathogens. Coming from a background within Health Services including Microbiology, I wish I had discovered this technology earlier.
