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To: Twotone

Ozone is a free radical of oxygen. Regular oxygen is O2, Ozone is O3. To make ozone you subject regular oxygen to UV light. Let’s see, are there any stars near the Earth that emit light in the UV spectrum?

I deserve a governement grant, dammit!


15 posted on 10/08/2011 10:27:04 AM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: 43north
Ozone is a free radical of oxygen. Regular oxygen is O2, Ozone is O3.

No, it's not. O3 is an allotrope: an alternative metastable form of oxygen. Typically because it's less energetically favorable than O2 under low-atmospheric conditions, it breaks down into O2, and there are some reactions which can cause it to break down into allotropic free radicals; but O3 itself is an ordinary molecule, not a free radical.

25 posted on 10/08/2011 10:59:49 AM PDT by FredZarguna (We'll keep Independence Hall. New Jersey can have all the rest.)
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