First things first: to start ozone is a gas composed of three oxygen molecules conventionally abbreviated as O 3 bound on what the chemical names as covalent which is something like a pair of electrons shared by pairs of oxygen (it has one single and one double). It also says that ozone is an allotropic form of oxygen (a compound is allotrope when can occur in different molecular structures for the same fitness) and I could be O 2 and O 3 in gaseous state.
Ozone is of paramount importance to life on earth and mercy that the process of generation and destruction acts as a protective shield, preventing the radiation of short wavelength (high energy, I arrived ea
land) which is extremely destructive to living tissues. Ozone completely blocks UV-C and part of UV-B (depending on the accumulation ozone).
This kind of dissipation of energy by the formation and destruction of ozone is carried out is as follows.
rupture oxygen double bond
prese nce of high energy resulting in the formation of ozone, so 90% is between 10km and 45km in the stratosphere. This process is dynamic and constant radiation quanta (packets of energy) "break" these bonds, generating two highly reactive oxygen quickly bind to a molecule of diatomic oxygen ( O 2 ) forming an ozone molecule ( O 3 ).
This occurs for wavelengths below 240 nm and can be summed up in:
Where h n is the energy of a quantum or photon ( E = h n ) h is Planck's constant and n (nu) frequency. To avoid confusion it is worth noting that the equivalence between frequency and wavelength is given by n = C / l where l is the length d and wave and C the speed of light in vacuum
Then while it performs another reaction but in this case the energy transfer and the subsequent breakdown of the bonds is made ozone less energetic radiation resulting monatomic and diatomic oxygen, summarized in:
O 3 + h n to O + O 2
O + O 3 to O 2 + O 2
This dynamic equilibrium is responsible for transforming the energy of UV radiation into heat making the ecological balance necessary for life on planet Earth.
entry in the next generation of the ozone hole.
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