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Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field

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204 points XzetaU8 | 1 comments | 29 Jun 25 17:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.221s | source
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peanut_merchant ◴[29 Jun 25 17:51 UTC] No.44414951[source]▶
Not well versed in the field, what are the basic implications of this for health?
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PaulHoule ◴[29 Jun 25 17:58 UTC] No.44415003[source]▶
In the 1970s there was a lot of talk about ‘healthful negative ions’ and a fad for negative ion generators even though many of those also generated hazardous ozone.

Hydroxyl ions are a significant kind of negative ion in the atmosphere and they’re known to be good because they react with and clean out pollutants like methane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxyl_radical

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144358/detergent-li...

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1. westurner ◴[29 Jun 25 18:37 UTC] No.44415293[source]▶
FWIU hydrogen plasma in water for hydrolysis would produce OH Hydroxl radicals. (and H2O2, O3 (Ozone), and NO_x).

TIL that Hydroxyl ions bind to methane and thereby clean the air?

Air ioniser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_ioniser :

> A 2018 review found that negative air ions are highly effective in removing particulate matter from air. [6]

But the Ozone. Ozone sanitizes and freshens, but is bad for the lungs at high concentrations.