what is ozone ?
Ozone is a gas. And it’s made of just one thing—oxygen.
Ozone can be visualized as a regular O2 molecule with a very nervous, active, reactive, excitable, energetic, and lively O1 atom as a
side kick. This monatomic O1 atom does not like to be alone, and near the earth's surface, it refuses to stay with the stable O2
double bond. It is active and reactive, with energy needing to be channeled in some useful direction. It will combine with
virtually anything on contact, or at least will try. This active O1 will not stabilize until it can break away from the O2 and
form a stable molecule with something else, virtually any other molecule that is available. If no other molecule is available, it
will eventually unite with another O1 atom in the same situation, and restabilize as O2. The preceding was adapted from an E-P-A
paper on ozone in drinking water.
