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A machine that charges the air so dust falls down instead of floating into your lungs.
means A device that electrically charges air particles so they clump together and fall out of the breathable air, rather than drift into your nose and lungs.
from Built from 'ion,' the term physicist Michael Faraday coined in the 1830s from Greek 'ienai' meaning 'to go' — ions were named for particles that migrate toward electrodes during electrolysis. The '-izer' suffix, a standard English device-making tag (like 'vaporizer' or 'sterilizer'), was bolted on in the 20th century once engineers built machines that could actually generate charged particles on demand, rather than just observe them in a lab.
- actual output
- negative ions, which stick to dust and drop it
- ozone risk
- some models emit ozone as a byproduct
- not a filter
- moves particles to surfaces, does not remove them
- best paired with
- an actual filter or regular cleaning