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How is Ozone formed in the Stratosphere?

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Answered by amritanshu6
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Ozone abundance. Ozone molecules have a low relative abundance in the atmosphere. In the stratosphere near the peak concentration of the ozone layer, there are typically a few thousand ozone molecules for every billion air molecules (1 billion = 1,000 million). Most air molecules are either oxygen (O2) or nitrogen (N2) molecules. In the troposphere near Earth's surface, ozone is even less abundant, with a typical range of 20 to 100 ozone molecules for each billion air molecules. The highest surface values result when ozone is formed in air polluted by human activities. As an illustration of the low relative abundance of ozone in our atmosphere, one can imagine bringing all the ozone molecules in the troposphere and stratosphere down to Earth'fs surface and uniformly distributing these molecules into a layer of gas extending over the globe. The resulting layer of pure ozone would have an average thickness of about three millimeters (about one-tenth inch). Nonetheless, this extremely small fraction of the atmosphere plays a vital role in protecting life on Earth.

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