Re:Robot Disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank
by toomuchtodo on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @09:14PM
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Far UVC is supposedly safe for humans.
> To continuously and safely disinfect occupied indoor areas, researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have been investigating far-UVC light (222 nm wavelength). Far-UVC light cannot penetrate the tear layer of the eye or the outer dead-cell layer of skin and so it cannot reach or damage living cells in the body.
> To continuously and safely disinfect occupied indoor areas, researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have been investigating far-UVC light (222 nm wavelength). Far-UVC light cannot penetrate the tear layer of the eye or the outer dead-cell layer of skin and so it cannot reach or damage living cells in the body.
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/far-uvc-light-safely-kil... ("Far-UVC Light Safely Kills Airborne Coronaviruses")