How is an Ionic air Purifier different?
An ionic air purifier uses a method, which is called corona discharge in which charged molecules are created, called ions. Most atoms that are present in the air have a neutral charge and they consist the same number of negatively charged electrons as positively charged protons. The discharge of corona can be small but has a strong electrical field. Molecules that pass through it actually pick up an additional electron every time, as a result of which the molecule gets a negative charge, or it might just have an electron knocked off of it, giving it a positive charge. The larger air particles, such as dust or other contaminants, have more probability to be ionized since they pose to be larger targets for the electrons as and how they pass through the corona discharge. If a particle were charged once, it would be attracted to anything that has opposite charge. For instance if there are two metal plates within the purifier that are charged, one of them charged positively and the other ch
