Explain How Ozone (O₃) Can Play Both a Beneficial and a Detrimental

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Essay

Explain how ozone (O₃) can play both a beneficial and a detrimental role in the earth's atmosphere.

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Definitions:

Structural Rearrangement

A process involving changes in the arrangement of atoms within a molecule, leading to the formation of a different structural isomer.

Cations

Positively charged ions that have more protons than electrons, resulting from the loss of one or more electrons.

Inversion

In chemistry, this refers to the process by which the spatial arrangement of atoms in a molecule is reversed.

Retention

The phenomenon where the configuration of a molecule remains unchanged during or after a chemical process.