Re:Ozone-Depleting Compound Persists, NASA Research Shows
by istvanp on Thursday August 21, 2014 @09:58AM
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Naïve question: is there a way to replenish the ozone layer?
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Re:Ozone-Depleting Compound Persists, NASA Research Shows
by brazzy on Thursday August 21, 2014 @10:20AM
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It's being replenished constantly. Ozone is created when UV radiation hits reguly Oxygen molecules.
The problem is that we used to release large so amounts of stuff like the CCl4 mentioned in the article that ozone got destroyed quicker than it was created.