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Why is the ozone layer called layer?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Ozone concentration increases with decreasing altitude to a maximum value, then drops of to near zero at the Earth's surface. The region of high concentration is called a layer, because it covers the entire Earth, and is confined to a few kilometers in height / thickness.

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