From a single computer to tens of thousands of computers and servers. Mosey by e MC protects data and files with the most trusted cloud backup service for business. Visit Mosey dot com to learn more. That's m o z Y dot com. Mosey It's always there. Welcome to brain Stuff from house stuff works dot com. Where smart happens him Marshall Brain with today's question, Does it do any good? Air out rugs and mattresses outside? There's at least one big advantage that the air outside the house has over
the air inside the house. On a sunny day, the air outside the house comes with a good dose of ultra violet radiation from the sun. While ultra violet rays are not great for your skin, it turns out that they are very good disinfectants. They kill bacteria. So if you haul a rug to a sunny spot on the driveways so that it gets several hours of strong sunlight, you're using the sun to disinfect it with something big, like a mattress or an area rug. It's one of
the few inexpensive ways to kill bacteria. You can't exactly throw a mattress in the washer. It turns out that ultra violet light. It's used as a disinfectant in a number of different products. For example, you can buy swimming pool filter systems that disinfect the water in the pool by running it past a strong UV light. Some municipalities do the same thing to augment the chlorine that treats drinking water. You can even buy a device that uses
UV light to disinfect your toothbrush. In Third World countries, there have been experiments using clear plastic soda bottles filled with contaminated drinking water. People leave the bottles in the sun and it actually helps to reduce bacteria in their water. So putting your rug or mattress out in the sun for a couple of hours won't hurt and it might help get rid of some of the Do you have any ideas or suggestions for this podcast? If so, please send me an email at podcast at how stuff works
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