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To: borntofly
Personally I'm still trying to figure out how a chemical that is heavier than air (freon) is getting up into the ozone layer in the first place.

sparky
23 posted on 08/16/2002 4:45:35 PM PDT by sparkydragon
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To: sparkydragon
It's carbon released from the chlorofluorocarbons (CFC, a.k.a. freon) that reacts with ozone (O3, as opposed to normal O2 oxygen). If freon stayed together, it wouldn't get into the ozone layer, but it doesn't stay together.

For a rebuttal of this theory, see http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1994/vo10no23.htm

41 posted on 08/16/2002 7:59:47 PM PDT by dagny taggert
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