Articles of category "Ozone Depletion"

If not to go deep into chemical details and to make the phenomenon of ozone comprehensible for everyone, I would say that ozone is colorless gas formed of oxygen under certain circumstances. Ozone layer plays a very important protective role against radiation. Unfortunately,ozone layer is becoming thinner and thinner. So far it's a warning signal for the mankind. We should take preventive measures to stop ozone depletion. And every one of us can take some measures in our everyday life. In order to understand what measures to take, we should understand what chemicals are harmful for ozone.

Oxygen is the second most common component of the earth's atmosphere (20.947% by volume). It is a major component of air. Oxygen is very important for breathing. We start yawing when there is a lack of oxygen in the room. We try to go at the weekend to the country or to the forest to breathe fresh air rich with oxygen, produced by plants during photosynthesis. One of oxygen derivatives is ozone. Ozone layer protects the earth from harmful UV rays. Oxygen depletion is an urgent question as well as ozone layer depletion. Oxygen depletion is also called hypoxia.