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From: mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: are ion generators bad for machinery and other living things?
Message-ID: <4147@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-May-85 16:14:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 16:14:24 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 25-May-85 08:14:44 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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A bunch of the non-smokers in our corridor have just received a
shipment of Bionaire smoke filters.  These machines contain both air
filters and ion generators.  I've read (perhaps in this newsgroup) that
ion generators don't have any hazardous effects on humans (and in fact
may make people feel better), but I seem to recall that they can cause
plants to wilt and make certain types of plastics disintegrate in time
(hopefully not as fast as the virus in The Andromeda Strain...).
Anyway, would it be wise to move expensive machinery like Sun
workstations, 3B2's, and plants out of our offices?
	Mark Plotnick
	allegra!mp