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Ozone is made of three oxygen atoms bound together and which is written by chemists as O3. The ozone molecule can be represented as three balls and two sticks holding the three balls in place. The balls represent the oxygen atoms, and the sticks represent the chemical bonds that hold the oxygen together. The bonding is roughly this O-O=O, but the atoms are not inline. The molecule is slightly polar because of the triply bonded central oxygen atom and the bent shape. The molecule swaps which atom has the double bond periodically. It is unstable, it decays in time even at liquid ozone temperatures.

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