eli5 Ozone is good and bad?

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Ozone is good because it blocks UV when it’s high in the atmosphere. It is bad when Ozone is depleted.

Ozone at low altitudes is reported as bad air quality.

People buy ozone generators for inside their house to purify the air.

People use ozone to clear up pollutants in sensitive reef aquariums.

It doesn’t seem add up.

In: Earth Science

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Your question has an inherent flaw in that your asking whether a complete natural thing outside of human manipulation is good or bad. Also the functions are completely different. Ozone in the atmosphere blocks UV due to chemical processes, and those affect skin. Ozone in our air affects our circulatory system. It’s all contextual, just like everything else.

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