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    protects us from the full blast of the sun’s radiation. Way up in the part of the atmosphere‚ called the stratosphere‚ a layer of gas filters out most of the sun’s damaging ultraviolet rays. This layer of gas is called ozone and is located about five miles to 25 miles above the surface of the Earth. (Bright‚ 1991). Only about one-millionth of our atmosphere is made up of ozone. But it has a tremendously important job. Ozonecan absorb‚ or soak up‚ the part of sunlight called ultraviolet radiation

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    OZONE LAYER The Earth ’s ozone layer protects all life from the sun ’s harmful radiation‚ but human activities have damaged this shield. Less protection from ultraviolet light will‚ over time‚ lead to higher skin cancer and cataract rates and crop damage. The ozone layer is one layer of the stratosphere‚ the second layer of the Earth’s atmosphere. The stratosphere is the mass of protective gases clinging to our planet. Ozone is only a trace gas in the atmosphere only about 3 molecules for every

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    Ozone‚ pronounced OH-Zohn‚ is a form of oxygen that is present in the earth’s atmosphere in small amounts. Ozone in the upper atmosphere is a major factor in making life on earth possible. But ozone in the lower atmosphere contributes to air pollution. Society has been widely addressed with the many problems that we are having in our environment today. A major problem is that of CFCs. CFC stands for Chlorofluorocarbons which are found in many of the aerosol spray cans. In December of

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    The ozone layer is a deep layer in the stratosphere‚ encircling the Earth‚ that has large amounts of ozone in it. The layer shields the entire Earth from much of the harmful ultraviolet radiation that comes from the sun. Interestingly‚ it is also this ultraviolet radiation that forms the ozone in the first place. Ozone is a special form of oxygen‚ made up of three oxygen atoms rather than the usual two oxygen atoms. It usually forms when some type of radiation or electrical discharge separates

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    ISSN: 2010-0264 Ozone Layer Depletion and Its Effects: A Review Sivasakthivel.T and K.K.Siva Kumar Reddy Abstract - There are many situations where human activities have significant effects on the environment. Ozone layer damage is one of them. The objective of this paper is to review the origin‚ causes‚ mechanisms and bio effects of ozone layer depletion as well as the protective measures of this vanishing layer. The chlorofluorocarbon and the halons are potent ozone depletors. One of

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    The upper layer of the atmosphere surrounded by ozone (15 to 30 Kms) is known as ozonosphere. Ozone layer is a protective stratospheric layer‚ also known as ozone umbrella. Ozone concentration differs by about 10 ppm in stratosphere compared to 0.05 ppm in troposphere. It acts as a protective shield for the man‚ animals and plants by filtering out the lethal ultraviolet rays from reaching the earth’s surface. If the ozone layer is not there‚ the harmful ultraviolet rays will reach to the

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    • Depletion of ozone and formation of ozone hole • Ozone‚ in fact is a gas having fishy smell and O3 molecules which works as the protective shield for the life in the earth. It absorbs solar ultraviolet radiations and thereby protects life on the earth from several damage such as DNA mutation‚ skin cancer‚ blood cancer‚ etc. In the year 1985‚ NASA detected the thinning out of the ozone layer leading to the formation of ‘ozone hole’ in Antarctica. Since then the scientists have been regularly

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    The ozone layer diminishes more each year. As the area of polar ozone depletion (commonly called the ozone hole) gets larger‚ additional ultraviolet rays are allowed to pass through. These rays cause cancer‚ cataracts‚ and lowered immunity to diseases.1 What causes the depletion of the ozone layer? In 1970‚ Crutzen first showed that nitrogen oxides produced by decaying nitrous oxide from soil-borne microbes react catalytically with ozone hastening its depletion. His findings started

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    stratosphere. Tropospheric ozone is undesirable since it is a pollutant these‚ causing photochemical smog and greenhouse effect. In the stratosphere‚ it acts as a protectant since‚ (i) It absorbs the dangerous UV-radiations (ii) It helps to trap the weather pattern within the troposphere‚ by generating a temperative inversion in the stratosphere. Tropospheric ozone is increasing due to human activities‚ while stratospheric Or‚ is decreasing. This decrease is called Ozone Depletion Ozone depletion deals

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    Article Reflection: Ozone Layer Ozone: The Pollution Paradox This article was based on information about ozone pollution. In my opinion this article gave a lot of valuable information and I learned a lot of things I never had knowledge of. For example‚ the atmosphere forms and destroys the ozone‚ the ozone can have an effect on the human body and the article also provided information on what we could do about the ozone layer to help the atmosphere. I had a little bit of information in my

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