Silver Tongue

tumbler-side-of-science:

thatweirdscienceguy:

silver-tongues-blog:

Why can’t we just load ozone into planes and basically crop dust the sky?

Ozone is heavier than air, so it would just cover the ground and poison a lot of people. The reason the ozone layer doesn’t fall down is that the ozone in the ozone layer is actually constantly being destroyed and formed anew from oxygen under ultraviolet sunlight. At lower altitudes there’s not enough ultraviolet light to produce enough ozone to match the rate at which it would be destroyed again.

also, ozone concentration is highest in the upper stratosphere, which is over 150,000 feet in altitude, whereas most commercial airplanes fly at about 35,000 to 40,000 feet

Thank you science side.

Reblogged 6 years ago from tumbler-side-of-science (Originally from silver-tongues-blog)
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    And we don’t even need to do this, the hole that is in the ozone is actually healing. Soon, it will be as if there was...
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    I can’t lie, I’ve always wondered the same thing as that dude
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    Thank you science side.
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    also, ozone concentration is highest in the upper stratosphere, which is over 150,000 feet in altitude, whereas most...
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    Ozone is heavier than air, so it would just cover the ground and poison a lot of people. The reason the ozone layer...