have heard that lightning is good for repairing the ozone layer. is this tru?

Answer 1

Lightning can produce ozone, but it is not at the proper altitude to reach the ozone layer. Any ozone produced by lighting tends to break down in the lower atmosphere. The ozone layer is created by UVC (or ultraviolet C) from sunlight and to a smaller degree, starlight.

Ozone is not stable, and must be continually manufactured by sunlight striking the upper atmosphere. The reason ozone is beneficial is that it absorbs ultraviolet light and prevents most of it from reaching the ground.

Answer 2

ok imma clear this up, o3=ozone which is made by 3 o molecules fusing, and lightning can cause this.nitrogen is a completely different element and is just their, i doesnt make up the ozone just air."WE" havent destroyed a huge part of the ozone layer,its a natural thing in the earths history.animals and plants also make greenhouse gasses that kill ozone lol.uv destroys ozone as well, uv can also cause damage to living things on earth.ozone protects us from uv light by splitting apart and deflecting the uv light.the ozone layer gets repeired and destroyed a lot in a year, the hole has always been their, we have just developed the technology to study it within the past 100 years.

Answer 3

Well... sort of. Any time an electrical current runs through air, it provides enough energy to cause oxygen molecules to recombine to form molecules of ozone -- it's what makes that dry electrical smell in the air whenever a lightning storm is in progress (and you're about to get zapped) It takes a lot of high-altitude lightning to produce enough ozone to make any appreciable difference, though -- UV exposure has a greater effect, because it affects the entire day-side atmosphere at once. It's slower in any one region, but more effective over the long run.

Answer 4

Yes , lightning is a source of nitrogen , a key component of the ozone layer, the only problem is that "WE" have done so much damage to the ozone that the lightning strikes can't repair it.

Answer 5

Ozone is O3, atmospheric oxygen is O2.

Ozone is toxic, highly oxidizing, and not good at the lower atmospheric levels (smog is mostly ozone).

Lightning ionizes the air around the lightning bolt and fuses O2 into O3.

UV light hits O3 and breaks it apart into O2 and a single O atom. This is how UV light is filtered by ozone.

UV does not create O3, it destroys it!

Answer 6

erm Chuck. Lighting doesn't provide nitrogen, the only way it creates Ozone is because the energy from the electricity is enough to bond three oxygen molecules. Ozone has nothing to do with nitrogen.

Answer 7

after a lighting storm that fresh scent is ozone. it's made when the discharge creates an O2 molecule from an O molecule

Answer 8

i dont know. is it? i doubt it though.