Because the high frequency current converts some of the oxygen in the air into ozone, the treatment has a germicidal action, and is also drying and warming.
The radiation profile is developed from inputs such as water quality, lamp type (power, germicidal efficiency, spectral output, arc length) and the transmittance and dimension of the quartz sleeve.
Earlier, household clothes dryers sometimes incorporated a germicidal lamp in series with an ordinary incandescent lamp; the incandescent lamp operated as the ballast for the germicidal lamp.
It is also moderately germicidal.
The water is cleaned and sanitized through the use of chlorine, filtration and an ultraviolet germicidal irradiation system.
The exact process of silver's germicidal effect is still not well understood.
These are generally only contained at preservative levels unless the product is marked antibacterial, antiseptic, or germicidal.
Chlorhexidine gluconate is used as a skin cleanser for surgical scrubs, a cleanser for skin wounds, for preoperative skin preparation and germicidal hand rinses.
