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A couple of questions about oxygen ionization: 1) Oxygen ionizes in the presence of an energy discharge such as a UltraViolet lamp. Do the ionized oxygen atoms remain ionized as long as they are in the precense of the energy field? 2) How soon after being ionized do the oxygen atoms reform into Ozone? 3) If an ionized oxygen atom has a -2 charge, how can these atoms bond into Ozone when they should be magnetically repulsed by one another? 4) Is there some way to speed up the decomposition of Ozone? Thank you for your time.
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