On the other hand, generated low levels of ozone, for use as air and water purification, has many benefits to offer mankind. Ozone is one of the most powerful natural sanitizers and deodorizers known to science. The fresh, invigorating air after a spring electrical thunderstorm is ozone. So is the smell of air-dried laundry on a clothes line. Unfortunately, ozone is missing in our modern indoor environments, but pollutants are not.
Ozone reacts with the sources of unpleasant or hazardous indoor odors and chemicals.
The reactive ozone molecule soon breaks the pollutants down into their basic molecular components, thereby neutralizing them. Having given up its unpaired third oxygen atom in the process, the ozone molecule itself becomes plain oxygen again. As with chemical pollutants, the outer membranes or shells of these microorganisms contain receptors that can absorb ozone, which proceeds to break them down. Without its protective membrane or shell, the bacterium, mold or fungus dies. Viruses are also killed by ozone.