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Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere? (www.vox.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere?::Can special lightbulbs end the next pandemic before it starts?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

I worked for a company that made a UVC light system for sterilization. The amount of safety you have to build in so people wont nuke themselves makes them hard to use.Also, the bulbs we used were delicate and had issues constantly.