Ozone is a molecule of three bonded oxygen atoms: O3
Ozone and oxygen are a bit similar. Ozone is a 3 atom and oxygen is 2 atom.
Ozone depletion is the destroying of ozone molecules. These molecules are three atom. All the atons are of oxygen gas.
Ozone is created by the oxygen molecules. When the UV falls on oxygen, ozone is formed.
Ozone (O3) is produced when a single atom of oxygen (O) and a molecule of oxygen (O2) collide and join together.
Chlorine and bromine separate from the CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) and destroy the ozone molecules. The chlorine and bromine atoms are not changed, so they continue destroying ozone. One chlorine atom can destroy up to 100,000 molecules of ozone during its lifetime in the atmosphere.
A chlorine molecule is very fatal to the ozone molecules. A single chlorine atom can destroy 100,000 moelcules of ozone.
Chlorine atom hurts the ozone. It depletes the ozone.
Ozone layer is confined of ozone molecules. These molecules form a huge pool of ozone molecules.
Each chlorine atom in the stratosphere can destroy thousands of ozone molecules, with estimates ranging from about 100,000 to over a million ozone molecules before it is removed from the atmosphere. This destructive potential is primarily due to the catalytic cycle that chlorine undergoes when it reacts with ozone (O₃), leading to its depletion. The significant impact of chlorine on ozone levels is a key reason for international efforts to reduce chlorine-containing compounds, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
It's funny because I just read in my textbook, which was printed this year 2012, that one chlorine atom can destroy "ONE Million" ozone molecules. They do not explain why. It is more then likely goofball science that no one can back up. I'm no chem expert, but... Cl + O3 YIELDS destruction of (thousands/millions) O3 molecules. Yeah right.
The CFC molecules affect ozone layer. These molecules react with ozone to deplete it.
Ozone molecules that absorb UV-B or more energetic light break apart, usually into an oxygen molecule and an oxygen atom. Sometimes the oxygen atom can recombine to form ozone again... if no competing reactions get to it first. Not sure what you had in mind about "something" absorbing ozone molecules... any chemical that ozone interacts with, gains the extra oxygen atom, leaving the oxygen molecule to go do something else. Even oxidizing elemental sulfur (or H2S), each oxygen atom consumed into the final molecule, breaks down one ozone molecule.