can we say that ozone is a compound?

Question

explain the reason.

what kind of bonds are present between the atoms of the elements. explain by giving some examples.

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Answer 1

Is O2 a compound?
If it is, then ozone (O3) is also a compound.

But I think the usual terminology requires that compounds contain two or more different elements. With oxygen, as with several other gaseous elements, there can be:
- "atomic" oxygen, which means a gas consisting of uncombined oxygen atoms; these combine quickly into O2, so an atmosphere of atomic oxygen doesn't actually exist
- "molecular" oxygen, which means O2 molecules, which is what we have in the air we breathe

In addition, oxygen can be combined into O3 molecules (with a "resonant" bond). This form of oxygen is unstable and highly reactive. But it is still simply oxygen, not a compound.

Answer 2

Is Ozone A Compound

Answer 3

A good question.

Compounds are classified as combinations of different elements (e.g water H2O); however it is generally considered to be rather pedantic to deny that ozone is a compound.

Interestingly the various forms of sulphur , which can exist in different molecular sizes (e.g. S8 S10), are generally classed as allotropes.

Part of the problem lies in the fact that a lot of these classical definitions were produced before the true nature of chemical bonding was understood.

As a working definition you are OK to call ozone a compound. The book below should help you.

Answer 4

No, Ozone is definitely not a compound. Anyone that says that Ozone (which is O3). It is indeed an allotrope of oxygen. Another form is O2, what we need to breath. To be a compound a substance must have 2 or more different types of atoms. O3 has three oxygen atoms, just one type of atom...oxygen.

Answer 5

No, a compound in chemstry consists of two or more different kinds of atoms. Ozone consists only of Oxygen, so it is a molecule, but not a compound. The kind of bonds that hold together molecules like ozone and diatomic molecules like H2 are covalent bonds. Ionic bonds are created between ions of opposing electrostatic charges, such as the ionic compound NaCl which is formed between the negatively chaged Cl- ion and the positively charged Na+ ion.

Answer 6

No.

I do not think ozone is a compound. A compound consists of two or more different elements. Ozone is just oxygen.

Answer 7

Ozone is O3, three atoms of oxygen linked together, rather than the two atoms of oxygen, O2, we normally breath. True O3 Ozone is a natural colorless gas made up entirely of Oxygen.
Ozone is NOT smog. Ozone is a compound that naturally occurs in nature.

While ozone is sometimes mistakenly referred to as smog, SMOG is actually a combination of hydrocarbons, among them being CO², CO, and SO².

Ozone is present in smog, partly because the processes that create pollution also create ozone.

When sunlight strikes industrial or automotive pollution, oxygen atoms are stripped from the pollutant molecules and form peroxy radicals?like nitrous oxide, nitric acid, sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide. At the same time the freed oxygen atoms bond with the free oxygen in the air and form ozone. The more pollution, the more ozone.

While ozone may be present in smog it is there to help clean the pollution.
Demonizing ozone is like blaming the fireman for the fire.
Without ozone, pollution would render our cities uninhabitable.

It is unfortunate that smog and ozone have been interchanged in the discussion of air pollution because it has masked the positive characteristics of ozone as the natural way of dealing with air quality problems.

What is commonly called "ozone" in referring to the ground level air quality are really a mixture of these various toxic hydrocarbons, NOT O3 ozone. O3 Ozone is made up entirely, and nothing more than pure Oxygen.

We know that Ozone is a colorless gas but when we look at SMOG we can see that it is certainly not colorless.

In fact without Ozone we the Earth could not clean itself of the true SMOG which is the hydrocarbons.

Ozone has the beneficial role in smog reduction which is its ability to break down and oxidize hydrocarbons and particulates in the air.

When it is said that the ozone level is high and that there is more SMOG it really means that while the ozone level it is higher than normal at surface levels the real danger is not the O3 ozone, it is the hydrocarbons the heavier than air ozone is trying to clean.

Without natural O3 Ozone our planets air would be a polluted mess that could never be cleaned.

When excessive amounts of man-made hydrocarbons are produced, there will be higher concentrations of ozone as a natural reaction to an unnatural situation.

While very high levels of ozone are not good to breathe, the levels we find in the outside air fall within acceptable breathing limits. We never recommend breathing in very high levels of ozone. That's why we build in special ozone burst timers into our air purification ozone generators.

Our ozone generators can be operated at low levels for safe air purification, and high levels for killing mold and bacteria.

Answer 8

Hi. Ozone is simply oxygen. It is bound as three atoms rather than the more common two. (O= atomic oxygen, O2= molecular oxygen, O3 = ozone.)

Answer 9

ozone is a compound

the chemical formula is O3

the wikipedia has a good article on ozone that describes the compound and the elemental bonds (even a nice picture)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone

Answer 10

ozone is not a compound since its formula is O3. it is made of only one type of atoms, that is oxygen atoms. one molecule of ozone is made of three atoms of oxygen.