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Ozone - layer is getting depleted because of

Ozone - layer is getting depleted because of excessive use of man-made compounds containing both fluorine and chlorine. Chlorine being a component of CFCs is highly reactive and interacts with ozone to turn it into ordinary oxygen molecule causing its depletion.

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