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The bottom of the stratosphere is defined by a temperature gradient. This gradient is present, because sunlight is absorbed and shatters nitrogen and oxygen molecules there. This is how ozone is made. Ozone cannot survive for long (it is unstable), and is destroyed quickly by the water vapor found in the atmospheric layer below it.

Oxygen molecules are broken apart by 215nm or shorter UV light. 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.

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