«Glass is a material we're all familiar with, but what many people probably don't know is that it is what we would call
a chemically heterogenous surface,» said graduate student researcher Alex Schrader, lead author of the PNAS paper.
Chemically, there will be an increase in ozone depletion (due to increases in
heterogenous surface chemistry in the stratosphere), increases in acid rain, possibly an increase in high cirrus cloud cover due to indirect effects of the sulphates on cloud lifetime.