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From: joefish@disk.uucp (joefish)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Ozone and the shuttle
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.052209.2553@disk.uucp>
Date: 24 Apr 91 05:22:09 GMT
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In article <47529@ut-emx.uucp> holloway@chaos.ut.UUCP (Bill Holloway) writes:
>
>     The depletion of the ozone is not documented in long-standing 
>meteorological time series, that's true.  But there is extremely compelling
>evidence from other sources.  Chief among these is the formation and year-
>by-year intensification of the polar night antarctic ozone hole.  This is
>part of my area of scientific research and I would be glad to provide you
>references or titles of papers you can read on the subject.

While I have seen many horror stories about how ozone is being
destroyed, I have yet to see a single story on how ozone is
created.
      I had a clothes dryer in the 1950's that had a UV bulb that
was supposed to sterilize the clothes with ozone, and if that little
bulb could make enough ozone that I could smell it, then the sun
must be able to make an awful lot of ozone.
   
      In fact, it seems to me that the amount of ozone production
should be almost proportional to the amount of UV that gets through
the upper atmosphere to where there is more oxygen, which I assume
is involved in the formation of atmospheric ozone.

      Am I wrong in thinking that ozone is made by UV, and am I
wrong in thinking that more is formed if there is less to block
the UV from penetrating the upper atmosphere?

Joe Fischer            joefish@disk.UUCP