| Crystal Pyramid Productions' broadcast video shooter, Mark Schulze, donned protective gear and took his Sony High Definition camera for some shots of the activity inside a clean room. Still photographs by Producer and Digital Video Editor, Patty Mooney.
What is a clean room, you may ask? According to Wikipedia: A clean room is an environment, typically used in manufacturing or scientific research, that has a low level of environmental pollutants such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles and chemical vapors. More accurately, a clean room has a controlled level of contamination that is specified by the number of particles per cubic meter at a specified particle size. To give perspective, the ambient air outside in a typical urban environment contains 35,000,000 particles per cubic meter in the size range 0.5 μm and larger in diameter, corresponding to an ISO 9 cleanroom, while an ISO 1 clean room allows no particles in that size range and only 12 particles per cubic meter of 0.3 μm and smaller.
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