Is ground-level ozone found indoors, outdoors, or both?

Answer 1

Ozone is found both inside and outside

It is an unstable molecule that is created when oxygen is exposed to high energy (usually electrical or ultraviolet). Often it is a form of air pollution (smog), and it can be smelled around high voltage equipment.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone
“Ozone (O3) is a triatomic molecule, consisting of three oxygen atoms. It is an allotrope of oxygen that is much less stable than the diatomic species O2. Ground-level ozone is an air pollutant with harmful effects on the respiratory systems of animals. Ozone in the upper atmosphere filters potentially damaging ultraviolet light from reaching the Earth's surface. It is present in low concentrations throughout the Earth's atmosphere. It has many industrial and consumer applications. Ozone therapy is a controversial alternative medicine practice; mainstream scientific medicine has found ozone to be harmful to humans, and equipment intended to be used for ozone therapy is banned in the United States.”

Although it is normally only created in the high stratosphere where it protects us from harmful ultra violet radiation, it can be found anywhere there are high tension power lines, electrical substations, car engines and where it can interact with hydrocarbon compounds (most of our fuel) and nitrogen oxides (nitrogen is the most common gas in our atmosphere); it is the key component to smog.

Ozone is a known cancer causing agent; it can interfere with the immune system and it can change cholesterol to plaque in the bloodstream.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone
“Ozone, along with reactive forms of oxygen such as superoxide, singlet oxygen (see oxygen), hydrogen peroxide, and hypochlorite ions, is naturally produced by white blood cells and other biological systems (such as the roots of marigolds) as a means of destroying foreign bodies. Ozone reacts directly with organic double bonds. Also, when ozone breaks down to dioxygen it gives rise to oxygen free radicals, which are highly reactive and capable of damaging many organic molecules. Ozone has been found to convert cholesterol in the blood stream to plaque (which causes hardening and narrowing of arteries). Moreover, it is believed that the powerful oxidizing properties of ozone may be a contributing factor of inflammation. The cause-and-effect relationship of how the ozone is created in the body and what it does is still under consideration and still subject to various interpretations, since other body chemical processes can trigger some of the same reactions. A team headed by Dr. Paul Wentworth Jr. of the Department of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute has shown evidence linking the antibody-catalyzed water-oxidation pathway of the human immune response to the production of ozone. In this system, ozone is produced by antibody-catalyzed production of trioxidane from water and neutrophil-produced singlet oxygen. See also trioxidane for more on this biological ozone-producing reaction.

Ozone has also been proven to form specific, cholesterol-derived metabolites that are thought to facilitate the build-up and pathogenesis of atherosclerotic plaques (a form of heart disease). These metabolites have been confirmed as naturally occurring in human atherosclerotic arteries and are categorized into a class of secosterols termed “Atheronals”, generated by ozonolysis of cholesterol's double bond to form a 5,6 secosterol as well as a secondary condensation product via aldolization.“

Answer 2

Carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide react with sunlight and hydrocarbons (particularly sunlight reacts with the emissions from cars to produce ozone) to produce high concentrations of ozone near the surface.So, ozone will be found both indoors and outdoors particularly in urban areas.

Answer 3

Ground-level ozone is both indoor and outdoor.

Answer 4

Yes, ozone (O3) do exist near ground but only a very small amount. They are formed when oxygen molecules (O2) absorbed radiation of shot wavelengths.

In fact, the odor you smell when you walk by a cheap ionic air filter is ozone (forgot where I heard about this, probably from the instruction manual of mine)

Answer 5

Duet takes 2 to accomplish and comparable applies to intercourse.. nonetheless on occasion it is solo additionally.. A observed a singer appearing a duet in woman and male voice..As for next component of ur question, I choose indoors..yet on occasion outdoors too on the lower back seat of my vehicle..

Answer 6

it has to be in both