A few hours. The half-life of ozone is dependent on temperature and water vapor, increases of either will shorten its lifespan.
You can find ozone in any layer of the atmosphere, but in the lower layers it does not last long. The so-called ozone layer is in the lower portion of the stratosphere, at a height where it takes a long time to dissociate.
The ozone can last. But only if we stop destroying it.
Seconds to months, depending on if the Sun is shining directly, the temperature, how "old" it is, and how many ozone scavengers (contaminants, such as water vapor and free chlorine or bromine atoms) are present.
In the last century the ozone layer was depleted. It is also termed as ozone hole.
The ozone layer was depleted from the actions of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) released into the atmosphere last century. CFCs were used in aerosols and fridges and escaped into the air where the winds gradually moved them all around the world and up to the ozone layer. There chlorine broke from the CFCs and destroyed the ozone.
Ozone is concentrated in the stratosphere, a region of the Earth's atmosphere located about 10 to 50 kilometers above the surface. This ozone layer helps protect life on Earth by absorbing the majority of the sun's harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
The ozone layer protects the earth from harmful UV rays from the sun. All those CFC's actually tear holes in the ozone layer, but they take 50 years to reach there. So the last CFC's in the atmosphere, sprayed in 1972, won't even start tearing apart the ozone layer till 2022!
It was nonexistent before there was significant oxygen in the atmosphere. After the Great Oxidation Event, we developed our ozone layer, complete with annual ozone "holes" at each pole. We have evidence of sporadic events punching holes in the ozone layer from time-to-time. Since the 1700s, the ozone layer has been getting steadily thinner. This gets us to "current events".
No, not smoke. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) released in the second half of last century is still damaging the ozone layer. Chlorine separates from the CFCs and attacks the ozone. Ozone is a protective layer in the upper atmosphere. It is formed, when oxygen molecules absorb short wavelength ultra violet radiations from the sun. Ozone is mostly destroyed by free radicals in the atmosphere. When compounds like CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) and other halocarbons are released, they are dissociated by sunlight into chloride radicals. These radicals attack ozone, thereby decreasing its concentration. This results in a thinning of the ozone layer, and in polar regions, a hole. The holes occur at the poles, and usually in Antarctica because of the extreme cold. During the winter polar stratospheric clouds form which are able to convert gases in the atmosphere into Cl (chlorine) and ClO (chlorine monoxide). When the sun arrives at the end of winter, that is the trigger to begin. This is why the hole is largest in spring.
There are two you can get in the last section of the level. First, you can destroy the right tower and go inside the door. Also, get a bazooka and aim at the ground to blow up some green studs and build them into the ground. Destroy them and a tree will pop up in the center, explode and the last artifact is revealed. This whole level is easiest to complete when invinsible.
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Troposphere: The lowest layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs. Stratosphere: The layer above the troposphere where the ozone layer is located. Mesosphere: The layer above the stratosphere where meteoroids burn up upon entry from space.