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32: The Ozone Success Story, Turning Heads, and Eurovision
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CFCs and H-CFCs Are the Bad Guys in the Atmosphere
We actually had a theory that they were causing us issues all the way back in the early 1970s. So CFCs and H-CFCs at the time were thought to be stable in our atmosphere. We used these chemicals everywhere because we thought that they were safe to use in our atmosphere basically. As they travel up into the stratosphere, as they travel upinto the ozone, UV radiation once again causes them to break down. Much like it did in the ozone for O3 causing that to break down, it causes these things to break down too. Really think chlorine into the ozone layer. This chlorine causes the ozone molecules to be broken down and then bonding with the chlorine which
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