destruction of stratospheric ozone

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• Ozone depletion — Image of the largest Antarctic ozone hole ever recorded (September 2006) Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related phenomena observed since the late 1970s: a steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth s… …   Wikipedia

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• Crutzen, Paul — ▪ Dutch chemist born Dec. 3, 1933, Amsterdam, Neth.       Dutch chemist who received the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for demonstrating, in 1970, that chemical compounds of nitrogen oxide accelerate the destruction of stratospheric ozone… …   Universalium

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