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The ozone layer visible from space at Earth's horizon as a blue band of afterglow within the bottom of the large bright blue band that is the stratosphere, with a silhouette of a cumulonimbus in the orange afterglow of the troposphere. The ozone layer or ozone shield is a region of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet ...
The NO x reacts with both the atomic oxygen and ozone leading to a net decrease in ozone. [2] This is particularly important at night when NO 2 cannot photolyze. NO + O 3 → NO 2 + O 2. NO 2 + O(1 D) → NO + O 2. Net: O 3 + O(1 D) → 2O 2 (net loss of ozone) Null cycles can also occur in the troposphere. One example is the null cycle that ...
Each oxygen atom may then combine with an oxygen molecule to form an ozone molecule: 2. ozone creation: O + O 2 + A → O 3 + A where A denotes an additional molecule or atom, such as N 2 or O 2, required to maintain the conservation of energy and momentum in the reaction. Any excess energy is produced as kinetic energy.
Stage 1 (3.85–2.45 Ga): Practically no O 2 in the atmosphere. Stage 2 (2.45–1.85 Ga): O 2 produced, but absorbed in oceans and seabed rock. Stage 3 (1.85–0.85 Ga): O 2 starts to gas out of the oceans, but is absorbed by land surfaces and formation of ozone layer. Stages 4 and 5 (0.85 Ga–present): O 2 sinks filled, the gas accumulates. [1]
Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says. A once-every-four ...
Diagram illustrating the ozone-oxygen cycle NOTE: the text in the final version can't be modified but earlier versions can be if you wish to translate them. Date: 27 January 2010, 20:56 (UTC) Source: Ozone_cycle.jpg; Author: Ozone_cycle.jpg: created by NASA; derivative work: Smartse (talk) Other versions
Triatomic oxygen (ozone, O 3) is a very reactive allotrope of oxygen that is a pale blue gas at standard temperature and pressure. Liquid and solid O 3 have a deeper blue color than ordinary O 2, and they are unstable and explosive. [5] [6] In its gas phase, ozone is destructive to materials like rubber and fabric and is damaging to lung tissue ...
While there are many abiotic sources and sinks for O 2, the presence of the profuse concentration of free oxygen in modern Earth's atmosphere and ocean is attributed to O 2 production from the biological process of oxygenic photosynthesis in conjunction with a biological sink known as the biological pump and a geologic process of carbon burial involving plate tectonics.