Ozone is a natural gas that we breathe daily. The word ozone comes from the Greek word ozein meaning smell, because of its distinctive sun-ray lamp smell. Ozone is natures way of cleaning pollution from our atmosphere. Ozone tends to react with other substances by attaching the third oxygen atom to the other substance, thereby oxidizing it. Many of us have heard weather reports where the ozone levels were referred to in conjunction with pollution levels.
Ozone is present in smog because certain processes that create pollution also produce ozone.
Ozone recombines with those same pollutants and neutralizes them by breaking them down into water, carbon dioxide, sulphur, nitrogen and oxygen. Generated low levels of ozone used for water purification prove very successful, as it is possibly the most powerful antibiotic, sanitizer and deodorant known to man. It doesn t merely mask harmful substances or smells it seeks them out and eliminates them. The invigorating air after a thunderstorm is as a result of ozone, so is the smell of naturally dried laundry on a clothesline. Perhaps you are a smoker or live with someone who smokes or maybe work with people who do.