How is ozone both beneficial and damaging ? How can we prevent the damaging effect of ozone?
Dear Student,
Ozone is a trioxygen molecule chemically expressed as O3.
Ozone exist as gas which is generally present in the stratosphere layer of atmosphere.
Ozone is very important gas as it absorbs ultra violet radiation of sun and hence protect living beings from the adverse effect of U.V radiation.
Ozone Depletion:-
Few are the deleterious effects of ozone depletion.
skin cancer
Eye damage such as cataracts
Damage to the immune system of humans
Damage to the DNA that may result in mutation.
Damage to the plants.
Damage to the marine life
Prevention of Ozone depletion:-
Ozone layer depletion can be prevented by avoiding causes that are responsible for creating hole in ozone layer. For example: Main cause of this is Chloro fluoro carbon (CFC) which is present as a main gas in refrigerator, air conditioner etc. So avoiding the use of these instrument and searching for alternate options of cooling in these instrument can prevent the ozone layer depletion.
Hope this information will clear your doubts about topic.
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Ozone is a trioxygen molecule chemically expressed as O3.
Ozone exist as gas which is generally present in the stratosphere layer of atmosphere.
Ozone is very important gas as it absorbs ultra violet radiation of sun and hence protect living beings from the adverse effect of U.V radiation.
Ozone Depletion:-
Chloro fluoro carbon of general formula CXFyHz is responsible for ozone depletion. In the presence of high energetic rays, fluorine free radical is generated, which break ozone molecule to oxygen causing depletion of ozone layer.
Few are the deleterious effects of ozone depletion.
skin cancer
Eye damage such as cataracts
Damage to the immune system of humans
Damage to the DNA that may result in mutation.
Damage to the plants.
Damage to the marine life
Prevention of Ozone depletion:-
Ozone layer depletion can be prevented by avoiding causes that are responsible for creating hole in ozone layer. For example: Main cause of this is Chloro fluoro carbon (CFC) which is present as a main gas in refrigerator, air conditioner etc. So avoiding the use of these instrument and searching for alternate options of cooling in these instrument can prevent the ozone layer depletion.
Hope this information will clear your doubts about topic.
If you have any more doubts just ask here on the forum and our experts will try to help you out as soon as possible.
Regards