– There are gases that destroy the ozone layer. Shouldn’t there be a compound out there that had the opposite effect?

Question

The title’s the question. I’ve thought about it for some time now, but I can’t find an answer.

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

Yes. If there were nothing that creates ozone then there wouldn’t be any ozone in the first place, would there? Ozone is formed naturally from oxygen and UV. Oxygen is usually found as O2. Ozone is O3. Oxygen doesn’t really want to be in the O3 state so it must be forced to stay in the O3 state by using lots of energy (UV).