The Destruction Of The Ozone Layer
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The February 17, 1992 edition of time magazine's cover story started like
this: "The world now knows that danger is shining through the sky. The
evidence is overwhelming that the earth's stratospheric ozone layer-our
shield against the sun's hazardous ultraviolet rays-is being eaten away by
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.... with other
molecules it the atmosphere. When and oxygen atom from the ozone reacts
with a chloride ion from chlorine monoxide, the ozone molecule is destroyed.
So chlorine monoxide is an ozone destroyer. There is always a certain
amount of chlorine monoxide in the atmosphere.
It is important to remember that ozone is constantly being created and
destroyed in the atmosphere. The amount of ozone in the atmosphere is based
on these reactions. There are many factors that influence the amount of
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