indoor air
Air which is contained within the interior space of a building or other roofed construction, and which is thereby separated from the outdoor atmosphere by that structure's envelope.
Source attestations
| Source | Label / path | Assertions | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLD | Environmental > Air > Indoor Air |
72 | ORGANISM |
Broader habitats
- air
ENVO:00002005
Also called
- interior air
- room air
Curation
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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Nearest broader term ENVO:00002005 'air' attached as a parent. Indoor air. kg-microbe's mapping table pointed this at ENVO:01000855, which it labels 'indoor air' and ENVO labels 'area of mixed forest' — a different concept, now rejected by the label check. No indoor-air term exists in the vendored slice, so this is a genuine term request; parented to air. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.40979f5751)
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DEFINED
Defined as 'indoor air' under ENVO:00002005 'air'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; the report's proposed sentence, genus and near-miss table are the evidence. No new research was commissioned. ENVO has no indoor-air term and three open issues ask for one (#858 2019, #980 2020, #1179 2021), one proposing the same containment differentia. The report asks for the indoor and outdoor pair together, which this and the outdoor-air row do. The genus is already the record's parent, so ADD. Dropped the exact synonym 'indoor-air' (#213): it is a URL slug differing from the source label only by case and a hyphen, not a name anyone uses, and an exact synonym is a claim about usage. Dropped the source label 'Indoor Air' from exact_synonym as well (#213): it differs from the requested label only in case, so as an ENVO synonym it asserts nothing, and the source label is already preserved in the record's source_attestations. Replaced with two names the report attests in real use - 'room air' (MIxS 'room air exchange rate') and 'interior air'.