What is the ozone layer? Detailed answer

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What is the ozone layer?

Man is becoming more and more convinced that his daily activities affect the climate, the water and food he eats, the air he breathes, and so on. Now people have begun to worry that all emissions into the atmosphere can have a detrimental effect on the ozone layer.

What is the "ozone layer" and why is it so important? The earth is surrounded by a thick layer of air, the atmosphere. The Earth's atmosphere makes life possible on it. This is the air we breathe. It protects us from dangerous solar radiation. The atmosphere prevents an excessive increase or decrease in temperature. It also performs many other functions. Our atmosphere is divided into different layers. The bottom layer, 16 km high, is the troposphere. The weather is formed in this layer.

The second layer of the atmosphere, from 16 to 48 kilometers high, is the stratosphere. Somewhere between 19 and 35 kilometers, in the middle of the stratosphere, is the ozone layer. This is a layer of ozone, which is a type of oxygen. In this layer there are no winds and the air is warm. Ozone makes it warm. This gas absorbs most of the solar ultraviolet radiation.

One result of this is the warming of the air in this layer. But more importantly, ozone prevents ultraviolet rays from reaching the Earth. Some of these rays are useful, but a significant amount of ultraviolet radiation destroys life on Earth. Therefore, it is very important that all atmospheric emissions do not have a devastating effect on the ozone layer.

Author: Likum A.

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