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प्रश्न
Ozone is abundant in this layer. Ozone heats this layer as it absorbs from incoming ultraviolet radiation from the sun:
पर्याय
Thermosphere
Troposphere
Mesosphere
Stratosphere
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उत्तर
Stratosphere
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Why is damage to the ozone layer a cause for concern? What steps are being taken to limit this damage?
The prime source of chlorofluorocarbons is ______.
What is ozone?
Which class of carbon compounds is responsible for the depletion of ozone layer at the higher level of the atmosphere?
Which compounds are responsible for the depletion of ozone layer?
How are CFCs harmful?
Explain what is smog. Give its effects.
Give balanced equation for the following conversion [one or two steps].
A molecule of ozone to two molecules of oxygen gas.
Gas A, found in the upper layers of the atmosphere, is a deadly poison but is essential for all living beings. The amount of this gas started declining sharply in the 1980s.
- Identify Gas A. How is it formed at higher levels of the atmosphere?
- Why is it essential for all living beings? State the cause for the depletion of this gas.
In 1987, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) forged an agreement to freeze the production of a certain chemical to the year 1986 level. Name the chemical and the manufacturing companies m which this chemical was being mostly used.
In what way this chemical damage -
- the upper layers of the atmosphere and ultimately
- the organisms on the earth.
