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Why Ozone is above Oxygen in atmosphere while its density is more than Oxygen?
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Ozone is found where it is formed. Energetic light from the Sun breaks down oxygen and nitrogen, and some of the oxygen ends up forming ozone. It decays too rapidly to diffuse in significant amounts, either ground-to-stratosphere or stratosphere-to-ground.
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A layer of special oxygen molecules high above the earth is called what?
This is known as the ozone layer.
Why could the hydrosphere never be found above the atmosphere?
because of the diiference of density
Where is ozone formed?
Ozone is formed anywhere oxygen and ionizing radiation is present (ozone layer, commercial ozone generators). There are some additional chemical methods, involving lower energy light (ozone as a pollutant, troposphere), or essentially no light at all (antibody production in fighting infection, ozone is a decay product of that attack; also phosphorous reactions).
Ozone is dangerous in which layer of atmosphere?
Ozone is found in all layers of the atmosphere. It is a minimum value at the extremes of the exosphere, and the bottom of the troposphere (where it is called a pollutant), with a peak value in the lower stratosphere. Ozone concentrations in excess of 0.05ppm in the lower troposphere is dangerous to people with asthma, and much above this, damages plants as well.
The layer of earth's atmosphere closest to land is?
This is the troposphere. It is the layer of air where all weather occurs. Above the troposphere is the stratosphere, home of the ozone layer.
Why ozone being densier than oxygen is present in upper atmosphere above oxygen?
Ozone is present at stratosphere. It is because it cannot survive near earth because of unsuitable conditions.
Where is ozone found in nature?
In the Ozone layer, one of the outermost layers of the atmosphere, that has a thinness on a severe level.
Does the ozone layer trap carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
It doesn't. The ozone layer has *nothing at all* to do with trapping CO2. Above the level of the ozone layer, intense radiation breaks CO2 down, so you get fooled into thinking the ozone layer had something to do with "trapping".
Why is ozone found in upper layer of atmosphere?
Short Answer: UV-C from the Sun is absorbed by the oxygen up high, and that allows ozone to be made up high. Ozone decays back to oxygen before it can fall very far... Ozone is not the heaviest gas, iodine heptafluoride (for example) is much heavier. Ozone is heavier than other gases commonly found in the atmosphere... Ozone is present in all layers of the atmosphere. It is concentrated in the stratosphere (which is not the "top of the atmosphere" there are more layers above it), because almost all the UV-C from the Sun is stopped there by oxygen and nitrogen, where the atmosphere's density starts really going up. Oxygen molecules broken into atoms, can yield the production of some ozone, monatomic oxygen is very short lived, so ozone is formed very quickly or not at all. As you move lower in the atmosphere, water vapor (and other contaminants) rapidly destroy ozone, so this allows ozone concentrations to decrease to near zero at Earth's surface. Oxygen molecules are broken apart by 215nm or shorter UV light (UV-C). So are nitrogen, and other atmospheric constituents. So beyond a certain depth into the atmosphere, there is insufficient 215nm or shorter light to break oxygen which can then make ozone. Then it takes a very long time (months) for gasses to diffuse in quantity large distances vertically, and ozone gas does degrade with time... so it appears this heavy gas hovers high above us. When in fact it is created, and disppears before it can fall very far.
Which layer above and beneath ozone is?
See "In what layer of the atmosphere do you find the ozone layer?"
What is ozone a form of?
Ozone is an allotrope of oxygen. Known allotropes of oxygen are O (found in space), O2 (found in our atmosphere), O3 (found in our atmosphere, made intentionally for production uses, and made as smog), O4 and O8 (found at tens of thousands of atmospheres of pressure, metallic).
In which level of the atmosphere is ozone concentrated?
Ozone is concentrated at 20-40 km above earth with highest concentration 6-8 parts per million. It is present in the stratosphere of the earth's atmosphere.
Is the moon situated inside the ozone layer?
The moon does not have an ozone layer due to various factors. Firstly because there is no oxygen present there which could be converted into ozone. Since the oxygen molecules are the basic ones which are responsible for the formation of ozone thus there is no ozone on the moon.
Is Free oxygen in the atmosphere important to the development and maintenance of life on Earth because oxygen can form ozone and block some UV radiation?
No, oxygen in the atmosphere is important, because animals and plants cannot photosynthesize in the dark. Oxygen forming ozone is important because DNA is damaged by what ozone absorbs, so it allows organsims without ring DNA, the ability to process telomerase whole-body, or multiple copies of their DNA in each cell, to survive. But life could exist without it, in fact there are RNA-based cells above the ozone layer.
How high up in the atmosphere is the ozone layer?
The ozone layer is 12 - 15 km above the earths surface
Where is 97 percent of the ozone in the atmosphere found?
97% of the ozone is found in the stratosphere region of the atmosphere between the range of 10km to 50 km above the sea level. It is the region where the ozone layer exists.
Why do oxygen atoms exist for longer periods of time in the upper atmosphere than in the stratosphere?
Bare oxygen atoms are found where pressures are low enough that collisions are rate, and energy is high enough to reionize oxygen. This occurs above the ozone layer.
