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Question by leandra patchin
Submitted on 1/19/2004
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What is the role of the ozone in UV protection?

Answer by Vir
Submitted on 3/14/2004
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Stratospheric ozone absorbs ultraviolet radiation to shield effectively the Earth’s surface from high energy radiation. This occurs in the upper atmosphere where there is molecular oxygen (O2) around. What happens is that when the UV rays strike oxygen molecules, the energy is used up to break the double bonds in three oxygen molecules to form two O3 molecules, known as ozone. This layer of ozone protects the Earth from high energy radiation

Answer by Ozone researcher
Submitted on 10/31/2004
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What are the detrimental effects of ozone depletion?

Answer by nazerite66
Submitted on 3/14/2005
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uv rays come in three types and the ozone layer only blokes one. type c is the uv ray that would burn everything

Answer by cynthia
Submitted on 8/29/2006
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Answer by cool
Submitted on 10/12/2006
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It shields you from gettin' a sunburn.

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