The Ozone story - Unit 4 Flashcards
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What happens to the atmosphere the higher up you go?
It becomes less dense
What are the two most important parts of the atmosphere and there order?
1 - Troposphere
2 - Stratosphere
What does 339 ppm of N2 mean?
Out of one million particles in a sample of air, 336 will be N2 particles
How do you convert percentage to ppm?
x 10,000
What is the main source of anthropogenic CO2 emissions? (2)
1 - Combustion hydrocarbon fuels
2 - Deforestation
What is the main source of anthropogenic Methane emissions? (4)
1 - Cattle farming
2 - Landfill sites
3 - Rice paddy fields
4 - Natural gas leakage
What is the main source of anthropogenic Nitrous Oxide emissions?
1 - Fertalised soils
2 - Changes in land use (e.g from soil when land is ploughed)
What is the main source of anthropogenic Carbon Monoxide emissions?
1 - Incomplete combustion of hydrocarbosn - car exhausts
What is the main source of anthropogenic Nitrogen Oxides emissions?
1 - Internal combustion engines e.g from reaction of N2 and O2 at high temps
What is the most damaging type of electromagnetic radiation to the skin?
Ultraviolet
What is a positive effect of Ozone in the atmosphere?
1 - In the stratosphere, ozone absorbs high energy UV radiation
What are the damaging effects of UV radiation? (3)
1 - Damage DNA leading to skin cancer
2 - Damage eyes leading to cataracts
3 - Damge crops
What are the negative effects of Ozone in the atmopshere? (3)
1 - In the troposphere, is a pollutant
2 - Involved in reactions that produced photochemical smogs
3 - This causes: Reduced visability, respiratoty issues
Is the speed of light differnet for different elcrtomagntic raditaion?
No, it’s a constant
What is a key feature of electronic, rotational, translational and vibrational energy?
1 - All the types of energy are quantised, has a definite amount of energy
2 - This means they all occupy definite energy levels
What are the effects of infared radiation on your body? (2)
1 - Makes bonds in the chemicals in your skin vibrate more energetically
2 - The molecules have more kinetic energy resulting in you feeling warmer
What type of electromganetic radiation do, electronic, vibrational and rotational energy levels absrob?
Electronic - Visable + UV
Vibrational - Infared
Rotational - Microwave
Out of electronic, vibrational, rotational and translational energy changes, what requires the most energy and why?
1 - Electronic - Energy levels furthest apart
2 - Vibrational
3 - Rotational
4 - Translational
What are the three things that can happen when a Cl2 absorbs radiation?
1 - e- excited to higher energy level and energy released
2 - If higher energy photon absorbed - Photodissociation occurs - bonding e- can no longer bond the atoms together, forming a radical Cl
3 - If very high enery photon absorbed - Ionisatoion - e- is able to leav molecule
What are radicals?
1 - Molecules or atoms with atleast on unpaired e-
2 - Very reactive so can lead to further reactions
What’s another word for bond breaking?
Bond fission
What is heterolytic fission? (2)
1 - Both of the shared e- go to just one atom when the bond is broken
2 - This atom then becomes negativly charged because it has one more e- than proton and the other atom becomes positivley charged
What is homolytic fission?
The breaking of a covalent bond in which each bonding atom receives one electron from a bonding pair, forming two radicals
How are radicals most commonly formed?
When the bond being broken is non - polar