Sentences with phrase «largely destroy the ozone»
For example, they say, injecting sulfate particles into the atmosphere would largely destroy the ozone layer over the Arctic and set back attempts to mend the «hole» that appears seasonally over the Antarctic.
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Hamilton provides an example of why the upward airflow is so significant: «The manufacture of ozone - destroying chemicals such as the freon compounds used in the past in spray cans and in refrigerators has been largely banned for over 20 years.
It may be a matter of semantics, she concedes, but there was a rapid resupply of ozone from outside the Arctic vortex (that swirling wall of winds in the stratosphere that largely corrals a patch of atmosphere, rendering it vulnerable to ozone - destroying chemical reactions).