Effects of unipolar air ions on microorganisms and on evaporation

✍ Scribed by A.P. Krueger; W.Wesley Hicks; J.C. Beckett

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1958
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 463 KB
• Volume: 266
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(58)90803-2

✦ Synopsis

Bacteria in droplets of distilled water were exposed to unipolar atmospheric ions produced by radioisotopes. Experiments using micro-chemical equipment and bacteriological techniques were carried out both in clean and contaminated air. Lethal results in clean air were attributed primarily to the action of ions on staphylococci. Survival in contaminated air was attributed primarily to the action of contaminants in shielding the staphylococci from (high mobility) ions. Evaporation rates were found to differ according to the presence, or absence, of air ions and atmospheric pollutants.