The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-06
OZONE ron EVERYDAY USE.
Produced in Great Quantities II Pos
scsses Magic Industrial Uses.

OF electricity" may be had at the corner
grocery and no housewife will be without
1t. Ozone has been known for nearly fifty
years as one of the marvellous constituents
of the air, but it is only recently that
scientists have learned its magical uses
for practical industrial purposes. Now
they offer It for the bleaching of fabrics
yarns, wax aud fats; sterilizing drinking
water; drying and thickenlng oils; matur-
ing wines and spirits; sweetening foul
beer barrels; seasoning linoleum: aging
mood for musical Instruments; manufac-
turing artificial perfumes: treating spent
Oil; purifying starch and dextrine; manu-
featuring vinegar; and score of other
similar purposes. In the treatment of dis
ease 1t is most efiicacious. Excellent re-
suits have been obtained in the treatment
of anaemia, 'whooping cough, malaria,
tuberculosis, wounds, and il is used for
purifying hospital wards. Many other ex-
amples of the usefulness of ozone might
be cited, but the foregoing important ones
will show the wonderful diversity and the
consequent extent of the field awaiting
this substance. Experiments show that
many puzzling phenomena have owed
their being to the presence in the atmos-
phere of large quantities of ozone. 1t fol-
lows that in any industrial process in
which air is a quickening factor, ozone
will find ready use because, 60 put 1t pop
ulary, il is a species of concentrated air.
Until lately test of the matter Of its
great usefulness was not possible because
ozone could not be made in very large
quantities.
AndreolI, Otto, Yarnold, Siemens and
Halske, all have produced ozone appara-
tus but Andreoh is the acknowledged high
priest of the craft. He Is a Londoner and
his researches on the subject of ozone
have been followed with interest by Euro
pean savants. j. B. c. Kershaw Is an
other Englishman who has given much
study to the theory and practice of ozone
production. OF course 1t Is the ability to
produce The substance in large quantities
that gives value TO il. Its presence in the
neighborhood of electrical discharges was
known very long ago. Van Marum called
Il the smell of electricity" It's
chemical formula IS the same as
for oxygen, but in considering It
thus, ii must be regarded in the same
relation as the diamond bears to a lump
of coal-both are carbon. If quantity
of ozone is placed for consideration
beside an equal quantity of oxygen. It
will be found that the mass OF ozone
contains one-third more of oxygen than
the other. Electrical discharges In the
atmosphere produce 1t readily. It's pun
gent odor can be noticed around the
poles of a static machine when the
glass plates are revolving Produced in
this way Il escapes or rather reverts to
It's original form In the atmosphere.
But It may be confined easily. For In
stance, IL the two poles of the electric
machine were TO be continued by means
of wires through the sides of a large
glass tube so that the sparks would be
generated inside the tube, the air flow
- H. AL. hA
ozonized and ozone would flow from the
other end of the tube. All commercial
ozonizers are built on this principle.
Condensers are caused TO generate
ozone within a chamber Air is kept
flowing through this chamber at a rapid
rate. 1t goes in one side of the apparatus
as air; 1t comes out the other side as
ozone. The ozone is not allowed to escape,
but is confined in special portable cham
bers. or In permanent chambers when II
is intended TO be used on the premises.
After ALL ozone is merely electrified
air, and any apparatus will produce II
which will very rapidly charge heavy
flow of air. The endeavor in all the
apparatus now in use is 10 multiply this
electrolyzing effect AndreoTs ozonizer
is an odd appearing affair. Clamped
within frame is a series of aluminium
and glass plates standing on edge. First
there Is fiat aluminium plate; then a
glass plate; then a plate composed or
great number of aluminium wires stretch
ed across a fiat wooden frame; next an
other glass plate; then another fiat alum
mum plate, and so on Indefinitely, or I'M
til the unit" or ozonizer is made up.
The glass plates are intended insulators
between the two kinds of aluminium plates.
The latter are charged with heavy al
ternating current. The whole apparatus
is confined within a chamber. Air Is
pumped rapidly through this chamber.
The alternating current In endeavoring to
flow between the two kinds of aluminium
plates electrifes the air and the result
is ozone at the other END" Of the ma
chine. The quantity now produced is
ninety-four grammes per horse power per
hour.
1t is most interesting to see an ozonizer
at work and to note its various fields OF
usefulness. The appearance Of every ozone
plant depends on the kind OF work to be
done with the apparatus. The pungent
smelling substance makes its presence
known as soon as one not used to 1t enters
the chamber in which II is made The
sensation in ones nose and throat Is
not altogether pleasant. It Is choking TO
some personsl simply annoying to others
Many persons cannot stand it at all; others
do not mind II in the least. In the day
time the odor Is most apparent within the
chamber; at nlBHL the OuOF II AOIBolleH
in view of the spectacular features of the
apparatus. The action of the glass and
metal plates as the strong current of
electricity plays on them is beautiful
When the current is turned on a slight
phosphorescence appears all over the
plates, growing into a great glow which
spreads over the apparatus and finally
fills and lights up the room. Photographs
of the ozonizers have been taken with no
other light than that contained in this
glow. II Is like the illumination of
vacuum tubes. Yet this glow Is one of the
things to be guarded against by the ozone
manufacturers. For 1t generates heat, and
heat in ats turn destroys ozone. So while
the spectacle may be beautiful, II is not
economic. The perfect ozonizer has no
glow. The apparatus is silent, and except
for the pungent odor of the illumination
II would not be suspected of being capable
of wrestling from the air its most vital
principle and hurting IL off. to be used in
the arts and industries. AS an industrial
proposition 1t is beautiful, for all it needs
is plenty of good fresh air to make It a
working success while what IS more i'm
portant TO manufacturers, there are no an
moving by-products TO cause a waste.