Illustrate the mechanism for ozone destruction by CFCs. The sun emits different types of wavelength, among those, we have UV light (Ultra violet light). The UV light would be very damaging if it were to come in contact with us including damaging the DNA and giving sunburns. Figure 1 types of ultra-violet radiation penetrating into the earth’s atmosphere and ozone layer. As shown in figure 1, we are protected by a layer of Ozone which accumulates in the upper atmosphere of the earth and absorbs the UV radiation (UVB and UVC) before it reaches us. Stratospheric ozone (O_3) is produced by the combination of an oxygen atom (O) with an oxygen molecule (O_2). O_3+ UV => O + O,UV light strikes an oxygen O_2 molecule, splitting of the O atoms O+O_3↔O_2,O_2 reacts with O to form O_3, since its reversible, UV light also splits O_3to O_2+O In the upper atmosphere, allotropes of oxygen exist. They include O_3, O_2and o. They are all in equilibrium with each other hence they interconv...