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Ozone
A colorless gas with a pungent odor, having the molecular form of O3 , found in two layers of the atmosphere, the stratosphere (about 90% of the total atmospheric loading) and the troposphere (about 10%). Ozone is a form of oxygen found naturally in the stratosphere that provides a protective layer shielding the Earth from ultraviolet radiation's harmful health effects on humans and the environment. In the troposphere, ozone is a chemical oxidant and major component of photochemical smog. Ozone can seriously affect the human respiratory system. See atmosphere, ultraviolet radiation. (source: EPA) Background from Wikipedia For other uses, see Ozone (disambiguation). Ozone (O3) is a triatomic molecule, consisting of three oxygen atoms. It is an allotrope of oxygen that is much less stable than the diatomic species O2. It is present in low concentrations throughout the Earth's atmosphere. It has many industrial and consumer applications as well as being used in ozone therapy. Ozone, the first allotrope of a chemical element to be described by science, was discovered by Christian Friedrich Schönbein in 1840, who named it after the Greek word for smell (ozein), from the peculiar odor in lightning storms.[1] The odor from a lightning strike is from electrons freed during the rapid chemical changes, not the ozone itself.[2] National Center for Policy Analysis,...by Joel Schwartz and H. Sterling Burnett The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a new federal standard for ozone air pollution that is much Diesel Additive from ORYXE Energy Plays a Key Role in Improving ... - 22 Oct 2007 PR Web (press release),Austin, TX (PRWEB) October 22, 2007 -- The unusually wet weather is one factor in fewer high ozone days this year in Central Texas. Air quality experts also Asthma Inhalers Go CFC-Free, Australia - 22 Oct 2007 Medical News Today (press release),..."Australia, as a signatory to the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement to phase out ozone-depleting substances, eliminated most CFC use a few years Cincinnati area blanketed in smog this summer - 22 Oct 2007 WTOL,Experts say hot and dry weather produced more ozone than usual. Ozone can create problems for those with chronic breathing difficulties due to the number of Electrostatic precipitation and dust control - 22 Oct 2007 Atomic,...conveniently sidesteps Ion Therapy/Ozone purification that seem pure BS. I've been trawling eBay and there seems to be quite a number of these devices, 2007 Antarctic Ozone Hole Smaller But Not Recovering - Oct 20, 2007 Environment News ServiceGENEVA, Switzerland, October 19, 2007 (ENS) - The Antarctic ozone hole this year is relatively small, but its size is not a sign of ozone recovery, ANTARCTIC OZONE HOLE SHRINKING - Oct 20, 2007 Winnipeg Sun,WASHINGTON -- The Antarctic ozone hole is back to an average size, shrinking about 16% from last year's record high, NASA said yesterday. NASA: Ozone Hole Returns to Average Size - Oct 19, 2007 The Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Antarctic ozone hole is back to an average size, shrinking about 16 percent from last year's record high, NASA said Friday. OZONE FAILS IN BID FOR £25M - Oct 20, 2007 This is Nottingham,...by the closing date in January 2006, so to make it to the final 23 short-listed projects was a tremendous achievement for The Meadows Ozone project. Ozone hole over Antarctica "relatively small": WMO - Oct 16, 2007 Reuters UK,GENEVA (Reuters) - The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is "relatively small" at about 25 million sq km this year, but it will still take decades for National Energy Services Announces Positive Results of Its Ozone ... - Oct 16, 2007 CNNMoney.comThe hospitality industry represents a market of approximately 60000 hotels and motels nationwide, 30000 of which are the size to benefit from the Ozone High ozone readings to cost drivers - Oct 18, 2007 Akron Beacon Journal,By Bob Downing Beacon Journal staff writer Cleaner but more expensive gasoline probably will be coming to Northeast Ohio as a result of high ozone readings Letter: Aerosol products not a factor in global warming - Oct 21, 2007 TCPalm,Like much of the American public, he mistakenly believes that global warming and ozone layer damage are related and that ozone layer damage is caused by Ozone layer hole perimeter closing in on Punta Arenas - Oct 18, 2007 MercoPress,Magallanes University Ozone and UV Monitoring Department revealed that the Dobson ozone scale had dropped to 250 units while the UV radiation index had Mild Weather Vs. Antarctic Ozone Hole Shrinkage - Oct 18, 2007 Scoop.co.nz,Although the ozone layer over the Antarctic this year is relatively small, this is due to mild temperatures in the region's stratosphere this winter and is Torre's sister sticks up for her kid brother - Oct 20, 2007 Newsday,Sister Marguerite, who lives at an Ozone Park convent, said it was hard to believe that the Steinbrenner family, which owns the Yankees, failed to realize Aberdeen hospital pioneers use of ozone as superbug deterrent - Oct 18, 2007 The Herald,Both are completely eliminated from clothing (including uniforms), bedding, mops and other laundry items by the Otex system - which creates ozone by the The-Ozone Note and Quotebook - Oct 18, 2007 The-Ozone.net,By John Porentas Todd Settling In: First-year starting quarterback Todd Boeckman is looking less and less like a first-year starter and more and more like a 'Ozone Man' - Oct 14, 2007 Baltimore Sun,The first President Bush belittled Al Gore as "Ozone Man" for his early warning about the damage to the environment caused by human behavior. A Gray Wall Dims Hopes For 'Green' Games - Oct 21, 2007 TheDay,But critics point to evidence of their own: Beijing does not regularly measure or evaluate some serious pollutants, including ozone and some types of fine New inhalers ozone-friendly - Oct 17, 2007 MU The Parthenon (subscription),Albuterol contains chlorofluorocarbons, which are known to cause depletion in the ozone layer, and will be completely phased out by December 2008, Ozone Organics features healthier fast-food choices - Oct 12, 2007 London Free Press,By HANK DANISZEWSKI, SUN MEDIA The Ozone Organics restaurant opened this summer at Hyde Park and Fanshawe Park Roads, serving up healthier versions of 'Ozone Man' Gore wins Nobel, vindication - Oct 12, 2007 Salt Lake Tribune,...by the US Supreme Court, was castigated as a climate alarmist. The first President Bush dubbed him "Ozone Man" during the 1992 presidential campaign. Oct. 11, 1995: 'We're Trashing the Ozone Layer' - Oct 10, 2007 Wired NewsThe erosion of the ozone layer is not only a contributing factor to global warming but represents a threat to life itself: Without the ozone layer to absorb Nobel prize for chemist who shed new light on ozone layer - Oct 10, 2007 Guardian Unlimited,A German scientist whose work led to a profound understanding of the vanishing ozone layer, clean car exhausts and rusting iron celebrates his 71st birthday [WTë…¼í?‰]Ozone:The hole truth - Oct 8, 2007 세계ì?¼ë³´,The international treaty to protect the ozone layer turns 20 this year. But is there really much reason to celebrate? Environmentalists have made many Do something about this smoke - Oct 20, 2007 Daily Nation (subscription),...hazardous to the health of millions who sit in the traffic jam and residents in that neighbourhood not forgetting the damage it causes to the ozone layer. Determination of Attainment, Approval and Promulgation of ... - Oct 19, 2007 Trading Markets (press release),IDEM also requested EPA approval of an ozone maintenance plan for this area as a revision of the Indiana State Implementation Plan (SIP). Smaller ozone hole over Antarctic no indication of recovery - Oct 16, 2007 Malaysia Sun,The ozone hole above the Antarctic is one of the smallest recorded in almost a decade, but this is not a sign that the hole is repairing faster than LIGHTNING TO BLAST BUGS ON WARDS - Oct 20, 2007 This is Aberdeen,Aberdeen's Woodend Hospital took part in trials of the new laundry system which harnesses nature's most powerful disinfectant - ozone. Air Purifiers America Offers Incentives to Replace Other ... - Oct 16, 2007 PR Leap (press release),COM) Austin, Texas – October 16, 2007 – The California Air Resources Board recently passed regulations banning ozone-emitting home air purifiers from sale Effect of Climate Change on Recovery of Ozone Hole Remains Unclear - Oct 15, 2007 US Department of State,By Cheryl Pellerin This is the first article in a two-part series about the Montreal Protocol and stratospheric ozone. Washington -- For 20 years -- since Montreal Protocol Could Be Model for Addressing Climate Change - Oct 19, 2007 Media Newswire (press release),Washington -- The 20-year-old Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, hailed as a success so far by scientists and governments, Cleaning grains with ozone - Oct 15, 2007 Reed Business,Since 1993, Goémar in St. Malo is doing research on decontamination of cereal seeds using ozone. In 2006, the two companies developed the Oxygreen process, 2007 Ozone Hole 'Smaller Than Usual' - Oct 3, 2007 Science Daily (press release)Science Daily — The ozone hole over Antarctica has shrunk 30 percent as compared to last year's record size. According to measurements made by ESA’s Envisat Hourly Ground-Level Ozone Forecasts Now Coast to Coast - Oct 4, 2007 Environment News ServiceWASHINGTON, DC, October 3, 2007 (ENS) - Ground-level ozone forecasts, for years a key predictor of air quality in major US cities, are now posted and mapped Nobel for 'ozone scientist' - Oct 10, 2007 Gulf Daily News,BERLIN: GERHARD ERTL of Germany said he got the news that he had won the Nobel Chemistry Prize yesterday at his office in Berlin, where he was hard at work Teeny tiny ozone hole for 2007 - Oct 4, 2007 Register,By Lucy Sherriff → More by this author In 2006, the ozone layer took a real beating, and a hole formed that was of truly epic proportions. Ozone breach at a five-year low - Oct 4, 2007 The Australian,THE ozone hole over Antarctica has shrunk by 30 per cent, and is now the smallest it has been since 2002. According to satellite measurements released Antarctic Ozone Hole Shrinks 30 Percent - Oct 4, 2007 Slashdot...polar red sends us news of a story that many outlets have picked up from a European Space Agency press release: the Antarctic ozone hole is 30% smaller than Sap-eating aphids make for sticky problem in Ozone Park - Oct 16, 2007 New York Daily News,A tiny insect is making itself a giant nuisance for people living on a treelined street in Ozone Park, sullying everything beneath them with a tarlike goo. Ozone hole has shrunk by nearly a third: European Space Agency - Oct 3, 2007 AFPPARIS (AFP) — The ozone hole over Antarctica shrank by 30 percent this year compared with the record loss recorded in 2006, the European Space Agency (ESA) Israeli honored for helping save ozone - Oct 1, 2007 Ha'aretz,Dr. Michael Graber, the former deputy executive secretary of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Ozone Secretariat received an award for his Metop sees Antarctic ozone 'hole' - Oct 5, 2007 BBC News,Europe's new Metop satellite has revealed the extent of ozone thinning over Antarctica this year. At its worst in late September, the hole was twice as big Nigeria: FG Plans to Phase Out Ozone-Related Substances By 2010 - Oct 4, 2007 AllAfrica.com,She said: "The ozone depletion leads to famine, eye damage, skin cancer blindness and other conditions stated that it is caused as a result of some gases Nigeria: Country Gets N4bn to Combat Ozone Depleting Substances - Oct 3, 2007 AllAfrica.com,As part of efforts to check the adverse affect of ozone layer in Nigeria, the United Nation Development Project (UNDP), under its environment programme's Hole in ozone shrunk 30 percent last year - Oct 3, 2007 MSNBCBy Dave Mosher The gaping hole in Earth's ozone layer has shrunk 30 percent in size compared to last year, according to new measurements made by the Ozone Shuts Down Early Immune Response In Lungs And Body - Sep 30, 2007 Science Daily (press release)Science Daily — As policy makers debate what levels of ozone in the air are safe for humans to breathe, studies in mice are revealing that the inhaled State bans in-home ozone air purifiers, citing health risks - Sep 28, 2007 Los Angeles Times,By Janet Wilson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer The California Air Resources Board on Thursday banned popular in-home ozone air purifiers, saying studies T&T gets ozone award in Canada - Sep 30, 2007 Trinidad & Tobago Express,Trinidad and Tobago has received an "Implementers Award'" at the Twentieth Anniversary Ozone Protection Awards in Montreal, Canada. 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