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Subject: Oxygen ionizatin

Date: Fri Jul 31 03:45:32 1998
Posted by Grant Larimer
Grade level: undergrad
School: University of Utah
City: Salt Lake City State/Province: UT
Country: 84108
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 901874732.Ch
Message:

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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