Oxygen and Ozone

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  • Created on: 26-01-17 18:58
What is stronger a) the double bond between oxygen atoms or b) the 1.5 bond between oxygen atoms in ozone?
a) the double bond
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How does the difference in bond strength between oxygen and ozone help?
Helps to protect us from the sun's harmful UV radiation
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Where is the ozone layer?
In the stratosphere about 12-50km above the surface of Earth
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True/false: The ozone cannot be continually formed and decomposed
False
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What can break the strong double bond between oxygen atoms?
High energy UV light from the sun
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What is formed when high energy UV light from the sun breaks the double bond in oxygen atoms?
Oxygen radicals
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What do we mean by an oxygen radical?
An oxygen atom with an unpaired electron and are very reactive
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Oxygen radical + Oxygen -->
Ozone
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What breaks the weaker bonds in ozone?
Lower energy UV light
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Ozone + Lower energy UV -->
Oxygen + oxygen radical
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Ozone + Oxygen radical -->
Oxygen
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The rate of production of ozone =...
The rate of destruction of ozone
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How can you describe the equal rates of ozone construction and destruction?
Steady states
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Give examples of human-made pollutants that have disrupted the ozone construction/ destruction process
CFCs and nitrogen oxides
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What has been the effect of CFCs and nitrogen oxides disrupting the ozone construction/ destruction process?
Holes have appeared in the ozone layer over the north and south poles in winter and early spring
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How many resonance hybrids does ozone have?
2
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What happens to UV with a longer wavelength with ozone?
Has a lower energy so is absorbed to break the bonds in ozone
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What is the name of the reaction where carbon and chlorine come apart to produce chlorine radicals?
Homolytic fission
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Why does the C-Cl bond break in CFCs and not the C-F bond?
C-Cl bond is weaker
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What do the chlorine radicals do?
Break down ozone molecules which regenerates more radicals so the process continues until the radicals escape or terminate
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What evidence supports the theory that CFCs are diminishing the ozone?
Increase in chlorine monoxide concentration has mirrored the decrease in ozone concentration
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Because chlorine does not get used up, what can we say it is?
A catalyst
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What else acts as a catalyst to break down ozone?
Nitrogen oxides
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