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Ozone: Good Up High, Bad Nearby
How Does "Bad" Ozone Affect Human Health and the Environment? Repeated exposure to ozone pollution may cause permanent damage to the lungs. Even when ozone ...
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OTCAIR
Pollution from cars, trucks, power plants, factories, paint, hairspray…a lot of the things we do and use every day contribute to the formation of ozone. Two kinds of pollution—nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs)—react when it’s hot and sunny and produce ozone ... of the pollution that results in ozone formation comes from activities we do every ...
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FMI - Research - Atmosphere - Ozone and UV radiation
These ozone formation and depletion processes caused by UV radiation are known as Chapman reactions. Consisting of three oxygen atoms, ozone ...
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Ozone Program History
Ozone pollution is formed when volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) react in the presence of sunlight. Emissions from local industry, our cars, and even our lawnmowers contribute to ozone formation. At ground level, ozone is harmful to all of us. Ozone pollution can cause breathing problems and respiratory ...
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Ozone Monitoring System Air Quality Index | Ground-level Ozone | New England | US EPA
EPA Home EPA New England Air / Pollutants Ground-level Ozone Air Quality Index Air Quality Index 8 Hr Ozone in New England during 2008: Information which gives ... Ozone (Smog) Home The Ozone Problem Air Quality Health Effects (EPA HQ) Real-time Air Quality Data Nonattainment Areas in New England Historical Exceedances of the Ground-level Ozone Standards Sources Contributing to Ozone Formation Ozone ...
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Progressive Environmental Co. | Ozone
Since ozone is the most powerful disinfectant available for practical use, its utility for inactivation of harmful food borne pathogens, without formation ... and jacuzzis. By relying upon ozone, rather than the typical halogen (i.e., chlorine) to perform primary sanitization, formation of disinfection by-products (trihalomethanes) ...
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Ozone Chemistry
Formation and destruction of ozone Sunlight is the major energy source for both making and destroying stratospheric ozone: ... by the destruction and formation of atmospheric ozone. The global exchange between ozone and oxygen is on the order of 300 million tons per day. Halogen catalysis of ozone degredation Halogens are ...
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The ozone layer, depletion and uv radiation
The hydroxyl radicals, for example, stimulate the creation of tropospheric ozone and other harmful pollutants. Smog formation ...
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Antarctica | Ozone Hole | Polar Stratospheric Clouds
Global Warming Ozone Air Pollution Weather & Climate Sustainability Kids INFORMATION Home Contents Introduction Science What is Ozone? UV Radiation Ozone Layer Ozone Depletion CFCs ... ozone, thus contributing to the depletion of ozone. Although some ozone depletion occurs over the Arctic, meteorological conditions there are very different to Antarctica and so far have prevented the formation of ozone ...
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Ozone Depletion | Ozone Layer | Stratospheric Ozone
Thus, the amount of ozone within the stratosphere varies according to altitude. Ozone concentrations are highest between 19 and 23 km. Distribution of Stratospheric Ozone Most of the ozone ...
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