What is Ozone?
Quality ozone is an allotropic, triatomic form of oxygen. More simply, ozone can be called super-charged oxygen and is nature’s way of solving the problem of air pollution. The smell after a thunderstorm or in a rainforest near a waterfall is often (in part) due to ozone. Ozone is used especially in disinfection and deodorization and in oxidation and bleaching. It reacts to oxidize unpleasant odors and to kill bacteria and germs. Ozone occurs when an electrical charge molecularly disassociates a stable molecule (02) and splits them apart leaving two unstable atoms of oxygen. Seeking stability, these atoms attach to other oxygen molecules creating ozone (03).
Ozone is a form of oxygen. The oxygen we breathe is in the form of oxygen molecules (O2) – two atoms of oxygen bound together. Ozone, on the other hand, consists of three atoms of oxygen bound together (O3). Most of the atmosphere’s ozone occurs in the stratosphere. Ozone is colourless and has a very harsh odour.
Ozone is a molecule that consists of three oxygen atoms (O3), with a delta negative and a delta positive electric charge. The ozone molecule is very unstable and has a short half-life. Therefore, it will decay after some time into its original form: oxygen (O2, according reaction presented below) 2O33O2 In essence ozone is nothing more than oxygen (O2), with an extra oxygen atom, formed by an electric high charge an extra oxygen atom. In nature ozone is produced by some chemical reactions. The most familiar example is of course the ozone layer, where ozone is produced from the sun’s ultra-violet (UV) rays. But ozone is also produced at thunderstorms and waterfalls. The extreme high voltages attended with thunderstorms produce ozone from oxygen. The special “fresh, clean, spring rain” smell is a result from nature-produced ozone. Ozone derives from the Greek word ozein, which means to smell. Ozone is only produced under extreme circumstances. This can also be created by ozone generators
