How can ozone be both good and bad?

Answer 1

Ozone in small amounts can be an antibacterial. In large amounts it can kill you. Ozone is oxygen in molecules with 3 atoms. The oxygen we breathe is in molecules with 2 atoms. Ozone gas is similar in nature to chlorine gas.

Answer 2

Thousands of miles above our heads ozone absorbs harmful radiation from the sun. Ozone on your skin will likely leave burns.

Answer 3

High in the atmosphere it is good acting with other gases in reflecting some of the harmful effects of sunlight such as ultra violet and preventing too much heat build up.

On the ground it is very harm full. Combined with pollution from vehicle exhausts and chimneys etc it causes smog. That causes healthy people to choke get sore eyes, noses and throats.

Ozone on it's own can cause severe problems to sufferers of breathing problems like asthma.

Ozone is actually three oxygen molecules. Whilst we need to breath oxygen to live, like many other things it is actually deadly poisonous in higher doses. Too much oxygen and you would drift off to sleep never to wake up!!!

Answer 4

it can indeed, it is poisonous at ground level to humans. A few years ago, Harwell laboratory in Oxford, England accidently released about 3 tons of the stuff, everybody was told to stay inside with their doors and windows closed.

Answer 5

When it is high in the atmosphere it protects us from UV radiation. At lower levels it is smog and we cannot breath it.

Answer 6

IT IS GOOD BECAUSE PROTECT THE EARTH FROM THE RAYS OF THE SUN (FILTER) AND BAD BECAUSE IT IS A GAS THAT CAN NOT BREATH

Answer 7

it's good because it protects us from harmful UV rays, but it is deadly poisonous to us ( the gas I mean)