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The Pros And Cons Of Ozone Depletion

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Rahul Edassery Professor Brown Grade 10IO Chemistry 25 April 2016 Ozone Depletion (A threat to Mankind): Halons Picture this, a turtle without a shell, a car without an engine. Have you ever wondered what the state of planet Earth would be without the ozone layer? According to Severn Cullis-Suzuki, ozone depletion is difficult to fix and it is best to not make it worse: “You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don’t know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don’t know how to bring back an animal extinct. And you can’t bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it! (AZ Quotes, n.d.)”. I agree by all means with the quote. It discusses how there are holes in the ozone layer and how we can’t fix the ozone layer. Science was used as a disadvantage to solve the ozone layer depletion because it was due to chemicals like CFC’s and Halons that were released in the ozone to interfere with the ozone layer ("Halon and the Ozone Layer”). “Ozone is a form of oxygen.” ("Depletion of the Ozone Layer.”). It is known by the formula: O_3. It is “a part of the stratosphere (upper atmosphere) where ozone is found in the highest concentrations.” ("Depletion of the Ozone …show more content…

It could extinguish a fire without generating any residues, which means in an environmental perspective, it does not leave any waste and “are safe for human exposure” ("What Is Halon?”, N.p., n.d.). Hence it was used to extinguish fires to save lives of people. “Halon 1211 (Bromochlorodifluoromethane) and Halon 1301 (bromotrifluoromethane) are low-toxicity, chemically stable compounds that, as long as they remain contained in cylinders, are easily recyclable.” ("What Is Halon?”, N.p., n.d.). “Halon has been used for fire and explosion protection throughout the 20th century,” ("What Is Halon?”, N.p.,

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