what causes holes in the ozone layer?

Answer 1

lots of things, hairspray emissions from car and pollution from factories, pretty much anything you breath that is not oxygen...

Answer 2

The ozone layer is very high, and is made when the solar winds and the earth's magnetic field comes together. The Beta particles are attracted to the north pole and this makes the north pole negative. The alfa particles are attracted to the south pole and make it positive. This creates a huge battery across the O3 which holds it in place. If the sun is very active the particle stream will blow a hole in the ozone layer at the pole. Nothing about pollution or CFC ,it is so high the only thing it bothers is launching satellites. If u leave the high voltage on in the satellite it will arc over burning up something.

Answer 3

There is a lot of scientific evidence that chloroflourocarbons (CFCs) are causing the holes in the ozone layer.

A CFC molecule floats into the upper atmosphere, where it gets sunlight. Sunlight causes the CFC to break into a molecule called a free radical. A CFC free radical has a lone electron that hangs off the molecule, causing it to be highly, chemically reactive.

The CFC free radical reacts with the barely stable ozone molecule, creating a chlorine-flourine-oxygen-like species molecule, that has no UV absorbing effect like ozone, and an ozone free radical. Now the ozone free radical is free to attack another ozone molecule, causing a chain reaction which destroys all other ozone molecules. Scientific experiments have shown that it takes very little CFC to destroy great quantities of ozone.

Most countries after realizing this did a lot to limit CFC production in most products that come in aerosol cans, but a lot of other countries didn't, and make claims the problem doesn't actually exist.

Skylor Williams

Answer 4

Ozone is a molecule containing 3 atoms of oxygen. It absorbs UV radiation from the sun as it uses this energy to be broken doen into normal oxygen gas. The heavy use of certain chemicals, especially chlorofluorcarbons used in aerosols, has accumulated in the atmosphere and interferes with this natural process by reacting with the ozone. Therefore the ozone is used up and we lose this protection against harmful UV radiation.

Answer 5

it is human activity that has resulted in the appearance of this hole. Gases used in aerosol (spray) cans as a propellant, fridges and many industrial processes have been identified as responsible for destroying this ozone. Levels of ozone in the atmosphere are declining and if this continues, then considerable damage could be caused to many living things.

Answer 6

Chemicals that are released as pollutants from humans that react with the molecule O3 (ozone), and change O3 into other molecules, thus you are taking away ozone.

Answer 7

Pollution.

Answer 8

turbo nickel-dipped spitwodz

Answer 9

pollution

Answer 10

smoking