Description and History of Ozone

Ozone

• Ozone is the Greek word for scent.
• Out of every 10 million air molecules, only three are ozone while two million are regular oxygen molecules.
• It is current labeled as O₃  composed of two oxygen atoms and one regular molecule of oxygen. 
• It has a molecular mass of 47.998.
• Pure Ozone is a blue gas.
• Ozone is a pollutant that can harm plant and animal tissues in the troposphere.
• In the stratosphere, it protects Ultraviolent Rays, but it depletes as a result.
• Highest regions of the Stratosphere contain 90% of all ozone.
• Dutch Chemist Von Marum was probably the first person to detect ozone gas sensorially.
• Christian Schonbein was the first chemist however to write about the discovery of ozone when he noticed a strange smell when conducting his experiments.
• He was also mentioned for being the first person to reearch the reactions mechanisms of ozone and organic matter.
• The first ozone generator was manufactured in Berlin by Von Siemens. 
• Marcus Paul Otto received a doctorate for an essay on ozone. He later on started a specialized company for manufacture of ozone installations.
• The first-scale application of Ozone was in Oudshoorn, Netherlands.
• Ozone is created through photochemical reactions and by electrical discharges.
• Other reactions between gases such as nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons create ozone and other ingridients of a pollutant called photochemcial smog.