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> It is extremely reactive. It's two oxygen atoms with 1.5 covalent bonds each and another one in the middle with three!
by thaumasiotes 1y ago
> It is extremely reactive.
It's two oxygen atoms with 1.5 covalent bonds each and another one in the middle with three!
- lazide 1y agoIf atmospheric oxygen is ‘burning’, it’s ‘nuclear hellfire’. What surprises me about the linked reddit thread is that a chemist was surprised that pumping a bunch of a highly reactive oxygen species into a pile of random chemicals would…. produce a bunch of highly reactive random chemicals in return? Ozone doesn’t make the soup of random elements disappear, it just oxidizes/reacts with them! Which eliminates odors if they’re trace volatiles (like most odors), but breaks a lot of other things down into even crazier chemicals - and if trapped in an enclosed space, can be bad. Also, here is a cool video from a guy making liquid ozone [https://youtu.be/9EVrIcaVrqM?si=SyXBieoolcMntcaW https://youtu.be/9EVrIcaVrqM?si=SyXBieoolcMntcaW]