Air Purifiers

							Title:
Air Purifiers

Word Count:
486

Summary:
A look at why it is sensible to use
 an air purifier and what an air pu
rifier does.


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Article Body:
Breathing is something that is vita
l to life. It is something we all d
o and need to do constantly to enab
le us to live. If you are not doing
 it now then I’m sorry but you cann
ot continue to read this, as you ar
e dead.

This article is not about breathing
 though; it is about what we breath
e. Well, that is obvious, air. Yep,
 but let us, for a minute, think ab
out what may be in the air we breat
he.
Apart from the components of air su
ch as oxygen, which is the bit we n
eed, the air you breathe is full of
 other particles and you need to th
ink about an air purifier to filter
 these potentially harmful particle
s out of the air or in other words
purify the air. I am sure you have
seen sunlight coming through you wi
ndows and when you are at a certain
 angle you have seen dust particles
 floating in the air. You breathe t
hese in unless you can use an air p
urifier to remove them or hopefully
 most of them. Its not only dust th
ough, people and animals drop flake
s of dead skin which is why you nee
d an air purifier. Tobacco smoke pr
oduces particles of smoke, which is
 why you need an air purifier, and
vehicles also produce particles of
smoke from their engines, which is
why you need an air purifier.

So what do air purifiers do? Quite
simply they filter the air that you
 breathe near to them. They help to
 purify the air and remove airborne
 particles. There are many differen
t types of air purifiers and these
can be systems designed to purify a
ll the air in your entire house dow
n to small systems which work in a
single room. They filter out all so
rts of things such as smoke, dust a
nd particles of dust and dead skin
from your pets. Just remember thoug
h, they cannot filter out all parti
cles but they can purify the air fa
irly well.

There is another type of air purifi
er, the HEPA type which can filter
out particles down to 3 microns in
size and can catch 99.9% of these p
articles. HEPA stands for High Effi
ciency Particulate Arrestance purif
iers.

There are also ozone air purifiers
but some people have suggested that
 these may not be good for you. I d
o not have the answer to this but u
ntil I am convinced of their useful
ness, I will stick to an HEPA filte
r.

Before you buy your air purifier yo
u need to make sure it suits your n
eeds so make sure you carry out int
ernet research and check manufactur
ers brochures. Whatever you decide
though, there is nothing to beat ha
ving a look at one and seeing it op
erating before you buy. Remember, t
here is nothing worse than buying a
n air purifier only to find out it
is so noisy that you cannot be in t
he same room when your air purifier
 is operating.