Question

(oxygen traps harmful ultraviolet radiation from sun) true or false​

Answer 1

Answer:

True

Explanation :

Most of the ultraviolet radiation in sunlight is absorbed by oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, which forms the ozone $O_3$ layer of the lower stratosphere.

Answer 2

It's False.

Oxygen doesn't traps harmful ultraviolet radiation from sun.

- Ozone absorbs all the ultraviolet radiation from the sun and it protects the earth from these harmful rays.

- Further in the stratosphere layer both the substances , i.e , ozone and oxygen divide to form again in a complicated cycle but ozone is present to absorb the harmful ultraviolet radiations.

- By absorbing these harmful rays ozone protects the earth from all kinds of hazardous skin diseases.