Monday, April 20, 2009

Forest fire VS Ozone layer - part 1

Ozone is a naturally occurring gas found in the Earth’s atmosphere that absorbs certain wavelengths of the sun’s UV radiation. Ozone is a gas that occurs both in the Earth's upper atmosphere and at ground level. Ozone is concentrated in a part of the atmosphere called the stratosphere. Stratospheric ozone is most concentrated between 6 and 30 miles above the Earth’s surface. Ozone is formed when oxygen molecules in the atmosphere absorb UV radiation and split into two oxygen atoms (O), which combine with oxygen molecules (O 2 ), to form ozone molecules (O 3 ). Ozone is also broken apart as it absorbs UV radiation. In this way, UV radiation helps sustain the natural balance of ozone in the stratosphere, while ozone, in turn, absorbs it, protecting life on earth from harmful radiation.
Ozone depletion describes two distinct, but related observations: a slow, steady decline of about 4 percent per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth's stratosphere (ozone layer) since the late 1970s, and a much larger, but seasonal, decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions during the same period.

Forest fire mainly exhume carbon monoxide also commonly known as CO. This chemical create a lot of bad effects on human mainly. The chemical equation that this chemical create at the ozone layer

CO (carbon monoxide): natural-forest fires - 2CH4 + 3O2 ---> 2CO + 4H2OAnd the effects of acute exposure to carbon monoxide are headaches, dizziness, decreased physical performance which is in summary is a chronic expo-stress on cardiovascular system, heart attack.

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