We suggest that most of the ozone in the ozone layer is actually formed by the splitting up of
oxygen multimers!
However, because there are a lot more oxygen atoms in
an oxygen multimer than in a regular diatomic oxygen molecule, the ultraviolet light doesn't have to split the oxygen into individual atoms.
Not exact matches
This means that when
oxygen and / or nitrogen molecules join together to form larger
multimer molecules, the average amount of latent energy they can store will decrease.
Instead, it can split the
multimer directly into ozone and
oxygen molecules.