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QUESTION: Stagnation, high temperatures and high levels of solar radiation are three of the physical conditions that accelerate ozone production. Explain why this would be for each condition

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Answer 1

Ozone is naturally produced in the stratosphere by a two- step reactive process. In the first step, solar ultraviolet radiation (sunlight) breaks apart an oxygen molecule to form two separate oxygen atoms. In the second step, each atom then undergoes a binding collision with another oxygen molecule to form an ozone molecule. In the over- all process, three oxygen molecules plus sunlight react to form two ozone molecules. This is due to high level of solar radiation

Ozone abundances in the stratosphere and troposphere are determined by the balance between chemical processes that produce and destroy ozone. The balance is determined by the amounts of reactive gases and how the rate or effectiveness of the various reactions varies with sunlight intensity, location in the atmosphere, temperature, and other factors