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  • The law in question is called Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards, a law designed to protect our health by limiting pollution that causes respiratory and cardiac illness.

    Philip Radford: Corporate Polluters Need Not Worry, Obama's Doing Their Dirty Work Philip Radford 2011

  • Ozone is produced and destroyed by the sun's radiation.

    warming-gate 2009

  • Ozone is a protective layer found about 25 km above us mostly in the stratospheric stratum of the atmosphere that acts as a sunlight filter shielding life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays.

    2007 Ozone Hole Smaller than Usual | Impact Lab 2007

  • Ozone comes from the Greek "ozein" meaning "to smell", and ozone has a characteristic odor that you can detect around high-voltage discharges.

    Ozone 2008

  • Ozone is one ingredient of "smog," which is formed by the influence of solar radiation on air pollutants, especially exhaust gases from motor vehicles and other combustion systems.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995 - Presentation Speech 1997

  • Ozone is formed in the atmosphere through the splitting of ordinary oxygen molecules (O2) by ultra-violet radiation from the sun.

    Press Release: The 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995

  • Added active window title outline as a possible replacement for 'Ozone'-like colored titlebar and frame.

    KDE-Look.org Content 2009

  • Fear Memories In Humans Weakened With Beta-blocker Propranolol Spin Battery: Physicist Develops Battery Using New Source Of Energy Long-term Ozone Exposure Linked To Higher Risk Of Death, Finds Nationwide Study

    unknown title 2009

  • Fear Memories In Humans Weakened With Beta-blocker Propranolol Spin Battery: Physicist Develops Battery Using New Source Of Energy Long-term Ozone Exposure Linked To Higher Risk Of Death, Finds Nationwide Study

    unknown title 2009

  • Wildfires: Why California Should Consider Australia's 'Prepare, Stay And Defend' Policy Long-term Ozone Exposure Linked To Higher Risk Of Death, Finds Nationwide Study Wildfires: Why California Should Consider Australia's 'Prepare, Stay And Defend' Policy Arctic Governments And Industry Still Unprepared For Oil Spills 20 Years After Exxon Valdez

    unknown title 2009

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