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LONDON: You cannot see it with the naked eye but high over your head, just above the altitude at which the highest-flying passenger jets cruise, there is a fragile layer of naturally occurring gas that shields all life on Earth from the deadly effects of the ultraviolet radiation emitted by the sun. This is the ozone shield, a belt of gas — specifically ozone, or O3, which is
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All life would cease to exist without sunlight. However, the sun’s harmful UV rays and other toxic substances from space would make this planet uninhabitable. The wonderful thing about Mother Nature is that there is a set balance for everything. To protect the Earth from the not so beneficial part of the sun’s rays, we have a silent superhero doing its job effortlessly — the ozone layer.
The ozone layer is the part of the Earth's atmosphere which contains relatively high concentrations of ozone gas, which is an inorganic molecule with the chemical formula O3. Ozone is a pale blue gas with a pungent (chlorine-like) smell. Though relatively high, the concentration in this layer is still small in comparison to other gases in the stratosphere. The Ozone layer absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth from the sun. Ozone Layer in the atmosphere is thicker over the poles than over the equator. When the sun's rays split oxygen molecules into single ...