Is Ozone compressable? If so is ozone gas releacable?

Question

If I flew a plane up to 60,000 Ft, can I release ozone?

Answer 1

Yes, yes and yes. Like all gasses, ozone is compressible. Yes, you can store it in a tank and take it somewhere. Yes you could release it from a plane.

Answer 2

yes, ozone is compressible. and yes you could fly an airplane and release ozone; but this would not offer a solution to the problem for many reason:
1- highest flight altitude of a commercial plane is 12000m, which is way below the stratosphere (where most ozone is) at 18000m.
2- high flaying planes could reach up there, but they wouldn't be able to carry that much ozone.
3- Jetplanes emit NOx, Carbon Black particles and Sulfates, all of which attack the ozone. So by flying a plane up there, you are actually damaging the ozone.

4- The main problem with the ozone layer is not getting ozone up there:
the weight of AIR is 28.97 g/mole, while ozone is 47.99 g/mole. meaning that OZONE IS HEAVIER, and will slowly gravitate back to earth.
The most important issue is the ozone cycle, where ozone is created and destroyed up in the stratosphere. If more chemical compounds (such as NOx, Carbon blacks, sulphates, CFCs, chlorides, etc) are released into the atmosphere, they will speed up the process at which ozone is destroyed, thus breaking the balance. So even if you are able to pump O3 into the stratosphere, without "cleaning" the environment, the ozone layer will still continue to deplete.

Answer 3

Yes, ozone like any gas obeys the gas law

P V = n R T

If you had an ozone generator, you could release it in a plane. However, ozone is a chemically instable gas and you could only produce a tiny amount in an airplane.

Answer 4

all gases are compressable,the only problem is that ozone is unstable and only lasts a fraction of a second, but it happens enough in the atmosphere that there is a layer of it

Answer 5

yeah you can because gas types are compressible