Study captures high bodily emissions during workouts
One sweaty, huffing, exercising person emits as many chemicals from their body as up to five sedentary people, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study. And notably, those human emissions, including amino acids from sweat or acetone from breath, chemically combine with bleach cleaners to form new airborne chemicals with unknown impacts to indoor air quality. Humans are a large source of indoor emissions, said Zachary Finewax, CIRES research scientist and lead author of the new study out in the current edition of
Indoor Air. And chemicals in indoor air, whether from our bodies or cleaning products, don t just disappear, they linger and travel around spaces like gyms, reacting with other chemicals.
Sweat, Bleach & Gym Air Quality Details 05 January 2021
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One sweaty, huffing, exercising person emits as many chemicals from their body as up to five sedentary people, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study.
One sweaty, huffing, exercising person emits as many chemicals from their body as up to five sedentary people, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study. And notably, those human emissions, including amino acids from sweat or acetone from breath, chemically combine with bleach cleaners to form new airborne chemicals with unknown impacts to indoor air quality.
“Humans are a large source of indoor emissions,” said Zachary Finewax, CIRES research scientist and lead author of the new study out in the current edition of Indoor Air. “And chemicals in indoor air, whether from our bodies or cleaning products, don’t just disappear, they linger and travel around spaces like gyms, reacting with
University of Colorado Boulder cheerleaders work out in the Dal Ward Athletic Center in 2018. Credit: Katie Weeman/CIRES. Read Time:
One sweaty, huffing, exercising person emits as many chemicals from their body as up to five sedentary people, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study. And notably, those human emissions, including amino acids from sweat or acetone from breath, chemically combine with bleach cleaners to form new airborne chemicals with unknown impacts to indoor air quality.
âHumans are a large source of indoor emissions,â said Zachary Finewax, CIRES research scientist and lead author of the new study out in the current edition of Indoor Air. âAnd chemicals in indoor air, whether from our bodies or cleaning products, donât just disappear, they linger and travel around spaces like gyms, reacting with other chemicals.â
January 6, 2021
A new study from Northwestern University shows that solar flares – space weather – might not always be as dangerous for life on exoplanets as typically thought. In fact, it might even help astronomers discover alien life on distant worlds.
Artist’s concept of a distant red dwarf star and accompanying exoplanet. Red dwarfs are common in our galaxy. They produce volatile, deadly flares – and accompanying space weather – that can erode the atmospheres of any nearby planets and severely endanger any existing life. But … maybe not always, according to a new study. Image via NASA/ ESA/ D. Player (STScI).
A few days ago, we reported new findings about how space weather spawned by Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our sun, might inhibit life on Proxima’s planets. Volatile red dwarf stars like Proxima are prone to powerful space weather, that is, bursts of radiation caused by flares on these stars. There are lots of red dwarf stars in our galaxy. So it’s
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