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		dognotdog on March 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New type of ultraviolet light makes indoor air as ... Wouldn't an open lamp severely degrade all kinds of paints and materials that aren't meant to be exposed to UV light? Or does the mechanism that supposedly makes the shorter wavelength safe for human skin cells apply to all materials?

solarmist on March 27, 2022 [–]

Yeah be safer for many kinds of materials, it should, but I’m not sure what the thresholds for those materials are specifically.

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