The ozone–oxygen cycle is the process by which ozone is continually regenerated in Earth's stratosphere, converting ultraviolet radiation (UV) into heat...
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ultraviolet light hits ozone it splits into a molecule of O2 and an individual atom of oxygen, a continuing process called the ozone–oxygen cycle. Chemically, this...
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The oxygen cycle refers to the various movements of oxygen through the Earth's atmosphere (air), biosphere (flora and fauna), hydrosphere (water bodies...
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Stratosphere (section Ozone layer)
ozone layer was described by British mathematician and geophysicist Sydney Chapman in 1930, and is known as the Chapman cycle or ozone–oxygen cycle....
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allotrope of oxygen that is much less stable than the diatomic allotrope O 2, breaking down in the lower atmosphere to O 2 (dioxygen). Ozone is formed from...
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allotropes) of oxygen are involved in the ozone-oxygen cycle: oxygen atoms (O or atomic oxygen), oxygen gas (O 2 or diatomic oxygen), and ozone gas (O 3 or...
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Phosphorus cycle Sulfur cycle Rock cycle Mercury cycle Geotraces Ozone–oxygen cycle "geochemical cycle". Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition...
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Methane cycle – Ozone–oxygen cycle – Phosphorus cycle – Selenium cycle – Silica cycle – Supercontinent cycle – Vanadium cycle – Wilson cycle – Zinc cycle Agricultural...
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Atmospheric chemistry (redirect from Atmospheric oxygen)
exposures assessments. Oxygen cycle Ozone-oxygen cycle Paleoclimatology Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion Tropospheric ozone depletion events Cairns...
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outflow boundary oxygen oxygen cycle ozone ozone depletion ozone depletion potential (ODP) ozone layer (ozonosphere layer) ozone-oxygen cycle Pacific decadal...
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rarer triatomic allotrope of oxygen, ozone (O 3), strongly absorbs the UVB and UVC wavelengths and forms a protective ozone layer at the lower stratosphere...
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The nitrogen cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which nitrogen is converted into multiple chemical forms as it circulates among atmospheric, terrestrial...
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stratosphere, null cycles and when the null cycles are broken are very important to the ozone layer. One of the most important null cycles takes place in...
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oxygen isotopic values it may be possible to use oxygen to trace the sulfur cycle. Biological sulfate reduction preferentially selects lighter oxygen...
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The water cycle (or hydrologic cycle or hydrological cycle) is a biogeochemical cycle that involves the continuous movement of water on, above and below...
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absorbed in the ozone-oxygen cycle.[citation needed] However some longer-wave and less harmful UVB and most of the UVA are not absorbed as ozone is less opaque...
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are sometimes referred to as oxygen generators within the oxygen and ozone industries to distinguish them from medical oxygen concentrators. The distinction...
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The phosphorus cycle is the biogeochemical cycle that involves the movement of phosphorus through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. Unlike...
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the presence of oxygen. Another type of abiotic process is the reduction of Fe3+ to Fe2+ by sulfide minerals. The biological cycling of Fe2+ is mediated...
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biogeochemical cycles are shown below: Carbon cycle Oxygen cycle Nitrogen cycle Nutrient cycle Phosphorus cycle Sulfur cycle Rock cycle Water cycle Many biogeochemical...
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Pavlovsk in the Soviet Union. Sydney Chapman explains the ozone-oxygen cycle, the process by which ozone is continually regenerated in Earth's stratosphere....
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Over-consumption Overpopulation Oxygen saturation Ozone depletion Ozone depletion potential Ozone layer Ozone-oxygen cycle Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory...
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nutrients is cyclic. Mineral cycles include the carbon cycle, sulfur cycle, nitrogen cycle, water cycle, phosphorus cycle, oxygen cycle, among others that continually...
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nitrification, and denitrification Oxygen cycle and Ozone–oxygen cycle – a biogeochemical cycle of circulating oxygen between the atmosphere, biosphere...
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biogeochemical cycles for the elements calcium, carbon, hydrogen, mercury, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, selenium, and sulfur; molecular cycles for water and...
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Ground-level ozone (O3), also known as surface-level ozone and tropospheric ozone, is a trace gas in the troposphere (the lowest level of the Earth's atmosphere)...
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Great Oxidation Event (redirect from Oxygen Crisis)
or Great Oxygenation Event, also called the Oxygen Catastrophe, Oxygen Revolution, Oxygen Crisis or Oxygen Holocaust, was a time interval during the Earth's...
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multicellular organisms. The climatic changes associated with rising oxygen also produced cycles of glaciation and extinction events, each of which created disturbances...
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as well as affecting tropospheric ozone. NOx gases are usually produced from the reaction between nitrogen and oxygen during combustion of fuels, such...
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Radical (chemistry) (redirect from Oxygen radicals)
dioxide to an oxygen atom and nitric oxide (see eq. 1.1 below), which plays a key role in smog formation—and the photodissociation of ozone to give the...
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