how can there be ozone "holes"?

[dpopiz]

isn't ozone just a fluid gas up in the atmosphere, which is all fluid?
how can there be a hole in a fluid?

 

[Tiamat]

gas is considered a fluid. Fluids can be displaced by other fluids. Thus, you have gaps where there is no ozone, and something else is there instead. Maybe CO2? Most likely some it is some sort of chemical reaction that takes up the O3 molecules and forms some other product. Thus, less available O3 overall.

 

[dpopiz]

yeah that was my question

 

[2Xtreme21]

Ozone is 3 oxygen atoms bonded together rather loosely. CFC's are released into the atmosphere and are also loosely bonded together. However, when these CFC's get to the upper atomsphere, oxygen atoms will rapidly bond with these, thus elminating the ozone molecules.

 

[WildHorse]

Don't confuse "fluid" with "liquid"

A gas is a fluid. Bill Nye Science Guy did a show on that when I was a kiddie

 

[funboy6942]

I always wonder about the holes were made by Co2 exhaust. What about all the abomb testing? It will not only send a shock big ass shock wave across the surface of the earth but stright up as well. How about all the rockets we have sent into space buring all kinds of fuel that can "burn a hole" into the atmosphere or Ozone. I have a hard time digesting that Co2 which has been around for ever that the plants use to make the O2 we breath is the cause, oh that and hair spray in a can.