Air purifiers aren’t enough to clean your home from wildfire smoke

doctorn , 9 months ago

Everybody knows you also have to hang a perfumed ‘Little Tree’ up for that…

treefrog , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Since the bot removed the 69% that mattered.

It’s like if you’ve ever been in a smoker’s home, how tar builds up on walls and you can still smell it even if no one smoked in there for weeks.

Well, wildfire smoke produces gases that will stick to surfaces too. Overtime these particles release back into the air.

So, air purifiers are still good. They remove particles from the air. Bu you just to also wash down surfaces. Like in the smoker’s home.

autotldr Bot , 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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These are all good strategies to reduce exposure to the particles in wildfire smoke, but smoky air is also filled with potentially harmful gases.

Getting rid of these gases isn’t as simple as turning on an air purifier or opening a window on a clear day.

In a new study published in the journal Science Advances, colleagues and I tracked the life of these gases in a home exposed to wildfire smoke.

I am an atmospheric and indoor chemist, so I started looking into the published research, but I found very few studies on what happens after a building is exposed to smoke.

We built on HOMEChem, a previous study in which we looked at how cooking, cleaning and occupancy could change indoor air.

Using a cocktail smoker and wood chips, we created a surprisingly chemically accurate proxy for wildfire smoke and released small doses into a test house built by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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