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It is a powerful oxidizer. Once the "loose" oxygen is expended, the oxygen molecule is no more potent than any other oxygen molecule. Ozone is unstable with a half-life of minutes to hours in air and water (water usually decays ozone faster, but ultrapure water can retain dissolved ozone for many hours). Rate constant are very high for most metals, sulfur and carbon-carbon double bonds. Lower rate constants obtain, most likely as ozone decays through "hydrogen peroxide" on its way to becoming just oxygen. Read more at the Wikipedia entry for ozone.

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