These are designed to trap and oxidise potentially
harmful ultrafine - particulate tail - pipe emissions.
The Berkeley Lab team has done previous studies establishing the formation of harmful thirdhand smoke constituents by reaction of nicotine with indoor nitrous acid, showing that nicotine can react with ozone to form potentially
harmful ultrafine particles, and finding that thirdhand smoke can cause genetic damage in human cells.
Not exact matches
Nicotine can react with ozone to form
ultrafine particles, which can carry
harmful chemicals and pass through human tissue.