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Chlorofluorocarbons Cfcs Nitrogen Oxides
1,336 wordsDramatic loss of ozone in the lower stratosphere over Antarctica was first noticed in the 1970 's by a research group from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) who were monitoring the atmosphere above Antarctica from a research station. The Halley Research Station BAS research stations in the Antarctic Rumor has it that when the first measurements were taken in 1985, the drop in ozone levels in the stratosphere were so dramatic that at first the scientists thought their instruments were defective....
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Ozone Depletion Ozone Layer
5,350 wordsFrom: (Robert Parson) Newsgroups: sci. environment, sci. answers, news. answers Subject: Ozone Depletion FAQ Part I: Introduction to the Ozone Layer Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Expires: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 00: 00: 00 GMT Message-ID: 67 rss$ Summary: This is the first of four files dealing with stratospheric ozone depletion. It provides scientific background for the more detailed questions in the other three parts. Keywords: ozone layer cfc stratosphere depletion These files are pos...
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Piece Of Paper Oxygen Molecules
1,524 wordsIn 1839, a German scientist Christian Schonbein was a professor of chemistry at the University of Basel in Switzerland. In addition to his teaching duties, he regularly performed secret experiments in hopes of finding out which substances make up the Earth's atmosphere. So Schonbein combined and separated a number of liquids and gases. During one of these experiments, Schonbein passed an electric charge thought a glass beaker of water, be noticed a very familiar odor. He first thought it was the...
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Al 2000 P Oxygen Molecules
2,956 wordsMembrane Processes Human exposure to pollutants in the air, water, soil and food-whether in the form of short-term, high-level, or long-term, low-level exposure-is a main cause of increased morbidity and death. However, the disease burden attributable to these exposures is not known with any degree of certainty because levels of general environmental pollution fluctuate greatly, methods for analyzing the relationships are incompletely developed, and the quality of available data is generally poo...
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Reduce The Amount Ozone Layer
1,136 wordsOzone derives from the greek word open which means to smell. It was first discovered in 1839 by Christian Friedrich Schonbein who noticed it because of its distinctive acrid smell. He discovered this at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Ozone is merely oxygen, but not the type we breath. Ozone, O 3 has three compounds while oxygen has only two. Ozone is reac- tive, meaning it does not stay still, and wants to go back to its original state, with two compounds, O 2. This is why ozone is harm...
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Parts Per Million Chlorofluorocarbons Cfcs
3,718 wordsIntroduction Orbiting Ozone Layer Ozone Layer Introduction Orbiting above the Earth, an astronaut can look down on our home and see the thin blue ribbon that rims our planet. That transparent blanket our atmosphere makes life possible. It provides the air we breathe and regulates our global temperature. And it contains a special ingredient called ozone that filters deadly solar radiation. The Atmosphere The gaseous area surrounding the planet is divided into several spherical strata separated by...
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Reduce The Amount Ozone Layer
899 wordsSociety has been widely addressed with the many problems that we are having in our environment today. A major problem is that of CFCs. CFC stands for Chlorofluorocarbons which are found in many of the aerosol spray cans. In December of 1973, Rowland and Molina discovered that CFCs can destroy the ozone in the stratosphere. In June 1975, the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) sued the Consumers Product Safety Commission for a band of CFCs used in aerosol spray cans. United States fifth larg...
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Carbon Dioxide Ozone Layer
1,519 wordsIn environmental science the green house effect is a common term for the role water vapor; carbon dioxide and ozone play in keeping the earths surface warmer than it would normally be. The atmosphere is primarily transparent to infrared radiation from the sun, which is mostly absorbed by the earths surface. The earth being much cooler than the sun, remits radiation most strongly at infrared wavelengths. Water vapor, carbon dioxide and ozone then absorb much of this radiation and remit a large pr...
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