On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 16:02:42 +1000, Scott Coutts
wrote:

Yup, those UV (blue) fluorescent shaped tubes you see in a lot of food
places and sometimes hairdressers do that. But it's not likely to be
effective unless you have it in a position that there are no shadows -
wherever you have a shadow cast, then things will grow there. You can
buy anti-bacterial and anti-fungal paint for putting in bathrooms etc,
as well as long(ish)-lasting sprays that just come in a manual spray
bottle - you just spray and wipe the same as you would with a kitchen
bench cleaner etc.


Yes, but not the "blacklight" lamps that are used to excite dayglow
materials. They are "blue" but have longer wavelength output that will
not kill mold spores.

You need a germicidal lamp, which looks like a fluorescent lamp and
runs on fluorescent lamp ballasts but contains no phosphor (hence it
is technically not a fluorescent lamp) and is constructed in a tube
made from quartz or a special glass that will pass 254nm radiation.

Note that in addition to killing mold spores, 254nm radiation will
damage parts of your body, especially your eyes. So make sure you
NEVER look at this lamp when it is on.

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Vic Roberts
http://www.RobertsResearchInc.com