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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.

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