Why can't we make more ozone and replace what we have lost?

Answer 1

Ozone production in the upper atmosphere is a careful balance (equilibrium) of several processes between oxygen and incoming UV light. The major processes are the breaking apart of oxygen and ozone by UV absorption, and the formation of molecular oxygen (O2) and ozone (O3).

Process #1: UV light breaks apart molecular oxygen into oxygen atoms
O2 + UV -> 2 O

Process #2: UV light breaks apart ozone into atomic and molecular oxygen
O3 + UV -> O2 + O

Process #3: atomic and molecular oxygen combine to form ozone
O + O2 -> O3

Process #4 oxygen molecules combine to form atomic oxygen
O + O -> O2

When "bad" chemicals are released into the atmosphere, they disturb the balance. For example, CFC's introduce chloride ions into the mix. The following new processes now take place:

Cl + O3 -> ClO + O2

ClO + O -> Cl + O2

So chloride ions break up ozone through the formation of chlorine monoxide, then the chlorine monoxide consumes atomic oxygen to reform chloride ions. This process consumes O3 and O without absorbing any UV light.

So the solution is not simply creating ozone artificially. Rather, agents that disrupt the natural balance between oxygen and UV must be eliminated from the upper atmosphere. That is why CFC's are banned, and as other chemicals are identified to be harmful to the ozone layer, they too will be banned.

Answer 2

cause ozone O3 (oxygen) is also harmful so it actually replaces it self in the atmosphere but even if we stop all air pollution it would still take a good 50 years to fully repair the ozone layer. ozone down here cause thick fogs which block sunlight from reaching us and plants this does not usually happen though

Answer 3

It would not look trouble-free because it sounds. first of all, we do not have any organic ozone gasoline to launch. All of Earth's ozone gasoline are those interior the Ozone layer. approaches of synthesizing O3 gases continues to be undeveloped and it would in all possibility take hundreds of thousands of greenbacks to do. Synthesizing O2 into O3 isotope is impossible ultimate now. the exterior area of the Ozone Layer itself is hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of kilometers squared and it will take perpetually to fill that up.

Answer 4

we can make ozine it happens every day at low levels of the atmosphere. especially in the summer. but we can't simply put it in the upper atmosphere where it is needed

Answer 5

It is recovering as we speak even though the lessons in school are obsolete. At sea level, we call it pollution.