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# Indoor air quality

## News and Updates

### Live Christmas Trees Affect Indoor Air Chemistry, NIST Researchers Find

December 22, 2023

### NIST’s Indoor CO2 Tool Can Help Assess Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality

July 19, 2022

### Streamlined NIST Tool Could Help Homeowners, Renters Reduce Airborne Exposure to COVID

November 24, 2021

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## Publications

### Ozone Generation from a Germicidal Ultraviolet Lamp with Peak Emission at 222 nm

July 21, 2023

Michael F.  LinkAndrew  ShoreBehrang  HamadaniDustin  Poppendieck

### Application of Indoor CO2 in Response to the Pandemic

April 3, 2023

Andrew K.  PersilyOluwatobi  Oke

### Implementing NIST Infiltration Correlations

March 31, 2023

Lisa  Ng

### Standard 62.1's Ventilation Rates: A little history and a little about the present

March 30, 2023

Andrew K.  Persily

## Software

### ViPER - Virus Particle Exposure in Residences

November 22, 2021

### CONTAM

January 8, 2021

### FaTIMA

September 4, 2020

### Tool for Evaluation of Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide Disinfection of N95 Masks in Small Rooms

June 3, 2020

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### Indoor Air Quality Test House

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