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The layer is heated.
Some oxygen, nitrogen, and ozone molecules are destroyed.
Ozone is made.
This is how the ozone layer returns after the polar winters deplete the layer. Lack of sunlight is the major issue with ozone depletion and the ONLY method that allows the ozone to return.
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What happens when a meteor hits the ozone layer?
When a meteor hits the ozone layer, it can cause localized heating and disruption of the ozone molecules. This can lead to a temporary thinning of the ozone layer in that specific area, which may allow more harmful UV radiation to reach the Earth's surface. Over time, the ozone layer can repair itself and return to its normal state.
What causes black hole in the Ozone Layer?
there is no black hole, but a thinning of the ozone levels over the Antarctic every winter. This has been happening for centuries due to a lack of sunlight hitting the oxygen in the area. Because ozone decays so quickly, sunlight must hit oxygen to create more ozone or the thinning occurs. The hole disappears once sunlight hits the area.
How does iron oxide harm the environment?
Because the oxide hits the ozone layer and I think that is why
How can CFC's damage the ozone layer?
the cfc's effect the ozone layer by breaking the bond of the atoms in the ozone layer.so it pulls apart the atoms and breaks the bond and the harmful radiation comes through and hits the earth
How did the ozone layor form?
The ozone layer formed through the interaction of ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun with oxygen molecules in the Earth's atmosphere. When UV radiation hits oxygen molecules (O2), it can split them into individual oxygen atoms (O). These oxygen atoms can then combine with other oxygen molecules to form ozone (O3), which creates the protective ozone layer in the stratosphere.
How does the depletion of ozone layer by man happen?
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) used in air conditioning systems and fridges leak out and rise into the stratosphere. Here they destroy the ozone layer. UV light from the Sun has the power to break the bonds of the O2 molecule making O3. This ozone hole is huge and allows short wavelength UV from the Sun to reach the ground and lasts for up to three months. The hole only occurs during the end of the winter in the Antarctic and is due to a lack of sunlight. The hole lasts above the Antarctic until the sun returns each summer. No thinning is observed near the equator as sun hits this area consistently.
How is ozone layer formed in stratosphere?
The ozone layer is formed in the stratosphere through the interaction of ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun with oxygen molecules (O2). When UV radiation hits O2 molecules, it can split them into two oxygen atoms, which may then combine with other O2 molecules to form ozone (O3). This process is known as the ozone-oxygen cycle.
What is ozone layer in french?
"couche d'ozone" seems to have about 344,000 hits on French language websites.
How does the ozone layer absorb ultraviolet radiation?
The ozone layer absorbs ultraviolet radiation by containing high concentrations of ozone molecules, which are made up of three oxygen atoms. When ultraviolet radiation from the sun hits the ozone molecules, it causes the molecules to break apart and absorb the harmful UV rays, protecting the Earth's surface from excessive exposure to these damaging rays.
How do pollutants destroy the ozone layer?
Water vapor, molecules containing chlorine and/or bromine, and not-fully-oxidized molecules containing carbon or sulfur.Horse manure:One gas that causes the destruction of the ozone layer is lexineflouride or leF. Lexineflouride hits the UV rays and basically causes different chemicals to react between the UV rays and leF causing skin cancer and other diseases to occur.
How does ozone layer protect us from UV rays?
Nitrogen and Oxygen stop UV-C and more energetic radiation. When they do this, they are broken down into constituent atoms. N2 + energetic light -> 2N O2 + energetic light -> 2O Some of the oxygen forms ozone (eventually). Ozone is broken apart by absorbing UV-B and more energetic radiation. O3 + energetic light -> O2 + O
What type of radiation interacts with the ozone in the stratosphere?
The harmful UV radiations coming from the sun are blocked by the ozone layer. Out of these the most harmful UV-C is almost completely blocked by nitrogen and oxygen, while UV-b is absorbed by ozone. Total absorption of the incoming sun's energy is about 16%, much more is reflected. The total energy hitting the planet is about 47% of what hits the upper atmosphere.
