What do people place on their platter for dust protection

glupson, do you think oxygen is carcinogenic? Wouldn’t that be a kick in the yarbles?

HP was referring to whatever comes out of a negative ion generator. You're right, it may be some other "O"...

Ozone is the short-lived gas molecule O3, whereas oxygen is O2. O3 is an allotrope of oxygen and is produced by ionization of air, not emitted by ion generators. Air obviously is also composed of Nitrogen gas and other gases.

geoffkait,

I doubt oxygen is carcinogenic. It is toxic on some other levels, but that is a different topic (think of Stevie Wonder and similar issues). I just noticed that dweller mentioned O2 while you were responding about O3, including about possible carcinogenic effects of it. That is all. I suspect that dweller’s/Harry Pearson’s point was also O3, but I thought I would ask. It has nothing to do with dust covers, no matter how hard we try to make it all very smart, but once it is discussed why not clarify.

dweller,

I thought it must have been a slip as O2 and O3 are very different animals.

It makes me wonder (no relation to Stevie), if those ion generators do something to ozone (layer), should they be avoided for the benefit of human race? Just like CFC etc.

All the downsides would be offset by increase in economy due to higher sales of record-cleaning machines.