Ozone on Bondi Beach – Periodic Table of Videos

We’re on Bondi Beach to discuss the ozone layer – a topic of great interest to Australians.

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  1. so ozone is more reactive than a normal oxygenmolecule, what would it then look like if you put a glowing piece of wood into pure ozone, because in pure oxygen it allready burns really bright

  2. This explanation of O3 is very well done. I (like many others) gravitate towards visual references while learning…Thank you Periodic Videos!
    Any chance at a video made on Hypothetical compounds? Cyclic ozone, hexaphenylethane and above all Bromochlorofluoroiodomethane. Again, Thank you all for the amazing videos.

  3. *–insert Spongebob push Bikini Bottom somewhere else joke here–*

    Now that the nonsense has been taken care of, i would like to state that the demonstration here was well done.

  4. I wonder though,  if Ozone never formed or couldn’t form on Earth for whatever reason,  if animals would not have simply evolved biological mechanisms for dealing with a high UV environment. 

  5. the specific gravity of freonF-12(used as propellant) is 4.52, while water is 1.00. I’ve always wondered how freon can just “float” high in the atmosphere to interfere with ozone. I’ve found no one able to give a reasonable answer, always a bunch of gobble-d-gook trying to sound “smart”.

  6. O2 is what you call normal oxygen, O3 is what you call ozone.  But do you know what it is called when you don’t have any oxygen at all?

    O-no

  7. If they open Sir Martyn’s luggage in the customs, the officers must be very confused to find all those strange plastic toys 🙂

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