Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00524)

It was common in past decades to think there was lots of ozone near the 
sea, despite scientists knowing what ozone was. We know now that the 
bracing smell of the sea is a whole bunch of things, probably including 
oxides of nitrogen, which incidentally are present in pipe smoke.

Look at the associations the word had when it was used.

Murray

At 00:35 20/05/2005, you wrote:
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 08:41:18 +0400
> From: Vladimir <forums@...>
> Subject: Re[2]: Master Morya's pipe
>
> Thursday, May 19, 2005, 6:01:59 AM, Bart wrote:
>
> > Except that ozone is a highly unstable oxygen molecule, and smoke is
> > formed by incomplete combination of other materials with oxygen,
> > making "smoking ozone" a nonsensical phrase, no matter how specially
> > it is prepared.
>
> Yep. Therefore I suppose Mme Roerich meant not the chemical substance
> O3 as we know it, but something else. One of her sons was a pharmacist
> and should have known features of ozone for sure.