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This product will eliminate odours in your home, but only in one plane (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it's the surface area of the extent of the effect. (For greatest volume affected, suspend the device such that its effect can reach, unimpeded, a sphere with that surface area.) Dunno how the physics works; something-something Gauss's law, I imagine.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's actually a proper non-joky perfectly valid and scientific way to justify listing a covered area in square meters rather than volume.

I doubt that's the actual geometry they used and the surface whose area they list, but none the less it's still well spotted.