Ozone Formation
This is the name of the cycle of reactions that only considers the production and destruction of ozone driven by solar radiation.
What is the Chapman Cycle?
What chemical compounds are primarily responsible for the rapid formation of the Antarctic ozone hole in the Springtime?
What are Chorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
The definition of reservoir species.
What are species that temporarily store (or temporary sinks of) reactive radicals?
When production rate equals the loss rate.
What is steady state approximation?
Atomic oxygen reacts with oxygen gas to form ozone.
What is O(3P)?
This is the tradename for CCl4.
What is CFC-10?
N2O5 and HNO3.
What are NOx reservoir species?
The primary health risk associated with increased UV radiation due to stratospheric ozone depletion.
What is skin cancer?
This important molecule absorbs both UVB (wavelength 280 -315 nm) and UVC (wavelength 100 - 280 nm).
What is ozone?
NO, NO2 are the species in this chemical family.
What is NOx?
HCl and ClNO3.
What are ClOx reservoir species?
This process begins for crystalline nitric acid trihydrates starting in the middle of the Antarctic winter, playing a crucial role in stratospheric ozone depletion.
What is sedimentation of PSCs?
This process only occurs in the upper part of the stratosphere because of the availability of photons associated with light of wavelengths lower than 240 nm.
What is the photolysis of oxygen gas?
Three catalytical cycles that destroy stratospheric ozone.
What is HOx, NOx, and ClOx?
What is photolysis?
The Cl radical is considered to be more potent than ClO in stratospheric ozone destruction due to this specific type of interaction with ozone.