Created naturally during thunder and lightning storms with concentration levels triple the allowable limit, as set by the EPA. It is created electronically or through ultraviolet light by converting molecules of oxygen into three molecules. Its also referred to as activated oxygen, allotropic oxygen or triatomic oxygen.
Being an unstable gas, its life is about 20 minutes, depending on the temperature. After completing its job, it reverts back to oxygen.
Ozone occurs naturally in the environment. In nature oxygen is released from plants and sea plankton during photosynthesis. Oxygen floats upward into the atmosphere and in turn is converted into activated oxygen by ultraviolet radiation. When you look up at the sky, the ozone layer is what makes it blue. It blocks out the harmful ultravoilet rays that cause skin cancer.
Production of allotropic oxygen is dependent on the amount of the suns energy. This explains the hole in the ozone layer over the poles in the winter months when there is a lack of sunshine.
Ozone has a distinctive smell that has been used to purify water since 1893. It can also be used in air conditioning for sanitation and to deodorize along with many medical applications. The first time ozone was used in food preservation was in the early 1900 in a Cologne meat packing storage.
Activated oxygen is most essential in meeting the high demand for safe food, and with the extension of shelf-life will provide less waste of food products. Its use leaves no toxic by-products or residues and is non-carcinogenic. It is anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-parasitic, anti-tumor, antiviral and better for health.
Activated oxygen, being heavier than oxygen, is carried in down drafts into the lower atmosphere. As it falls it oxidizes any pollutant or contaminate with which it comes into contact, turning it into a safer compound.
Chlorine is the main compound that reduces the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere. When it comes into contact with water vapor during storms it produces hydrogen peroxide. This is why plants flourish better with rainwater than with irrigation water. This is natures way of cleaning the environment.
Natural concentrations can vary between .01 to .05 parts per million, depending on geographic location, altitude and season. The cycle of activated oxygen is just like the cycle of water in nature. It is created by waterfalls and oceans surf. This accounts for the calm and the relaxed feeling enjoyed while at the beach or in the mountains.
Triatomic oxygen is second only to fluoride as the most powerful oxidizer or oxidant in the world for sanitation. It's the most powerful, natural sanitizer readily available. It will break down most chemicals into that chemicals basic naturally-occurring component parts. After time they are eventually broken down into h2o, carbon dioxide, sulfur, nitrogen and oxygen.
Real Truths About Pollution, Activated Oxygen
News media today refers to air pollution or smog as being excessive O3 levels.
This has to be the most ridiculous publicized statements ever made. The majority
of most misunderstands the difference between it and smog. It could do much
to decontaminate our environment and relieve health-related problems that
afflict us all.
Use a little common sense, logic, and reasoning in everything you read or hear because their misinformation on what is ozone is for a reason.
Pollution is defined as noxious chemicals or refuse that impairs purity. The two main sources of pollution are from automobiles and industry. Photo chemical reaction takes place when these emissions, sunlight, moisture, and temperature combine in the right circumstances.
Then a single oxygen atom is stripped off and out of the complex hydrocarbon and nitrogen oxide molecules. The single oxygen atoms then combine with atmospheric oxygen to produce triatomic oxygen. After the stripping out of these singular oxygen atoms, come the bad radicals.
These compounds are the offensive ones with bad odors that cause respiratory problems and runny eyes. The most damaging radicals are nitrogen dioxide, nitric acid, nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, sulfuric acid, carbonic acid and carbon monoxide. Activated oxygen will break down these radicals into safer compounds.
Largest source of contamination that no one seems to mention is chlorine. Chlorinated compounds are among the largest polluter in what we breathe. Whatever the chlorinated compounds are used in they will evaporate into the atmosphere.
Ones who report the levels in the larger cities supposedly use o3 monitors to determine the concentration levels during smog days. This is how they have concluded that ozone is smog.
Chlorine gas is in the atmosphere and passing through the monitor there will be a false or higher reading of the concentration levels. They may not have considered this when coming to their conclusion.
Some can be deceived while others can not; surely, anyone should be able to tell the difference between polluted and pure air.
Pollution is caused by humans and natural sources like forest fires or volcano eruptions. The main pollutants in our environment are from synthetic chemicals, not allotropic oxygen. It by no means is it a pollutant.
Pollutants do not destroy the ozone. It destroys the pollution in the environment.
Triatomic or activated oxygen is as natural as the air you breathe.