Sentences with phrase «sunlight destroys ozone»
Ultraviolet radiation from sunlight destroys ozone in a similar manner.
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Like chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and several other ozone - destroying chemicals you may have heard of, CH2Cl2 breaks apart when struck by sunlight.
That's because the clouds catalyze the reactions that mobilize chlorine into active chemicals that can react in the presence of sunlight to destroy ozone.
In the harsh sunlight of the upper atmosphere, methane can react with other gases to form water vapor, which then breaks down into other chemicals that destroy ozone.
This may herald the most severe ozone loss yet over the Arctic region next spring — the time when sunlight returns to the northern hemisphere and triggers the reactions that destroy ozone.
On Mars, ozone is just as easily destroyed by the byproducts of water vapor breakdown by ultraviolet sunlight.
They are destroyed (albeit slowly) by photo dissociation (sunlight) to release the halo atom which then reacts with ozone leading to its depletion.