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To: Flick Lives

You just keep digging yourself deeper.

It seems you’re trying to compare an electrostatic precipitator type of air purifier with a face mask (I wasn’t about to pay for the full article, just to confirm that). The key difference is the gaps (plate separation) — over 3,000 nm vs ~ 30 nm for masks. Electrostatic forces are subject to the inverse-square law. If 10,000 volts are required for a 1/8” gap (> 3,000 nm), then, just over 10 volts would be required in a cloth mask.

I paid attention in some of my college physics classes.


70 posted on 07/03/2020 4:26:59 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Wolf’s order says simply “a cloth face covering”.

So an Alyssia Milano crocheted mask would qualify.

This is not about health.


73 posted on 07/03/2020 4:30:33 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

...just over 10 volts would be required in a cloth mask.

... and where is that continuous voltage differential coming from.


82 posted on 07/03/2020 4:56:29 PM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

“just over 10 volts would be required ....”

Should be: “... 1.0 volts ....”


86 posted on 07/03/2020 5:39:02 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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