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Physical-Chemical Properties of Ozone – Natural Production of Ozone: The Toxicology of Ozone
As I already mentioned, ozone (from the Greek means to give off a smell) is a natural but unstable molecule. The pure gas has a soft sky-blue colour with a pungent, acrid smell. The molecule is composed of three oxygen atoms (O(3)) and, the molecular weight, in comparison to the oxygen diatomic mole...
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description | As I already mentioned, ozone (from the Greek means to give off a smell) is a natural but unstable molecule. The pure gas has a soft sky-blue colour with a pungent, acrid smell. The molecule is composed of three oxygen atoms (O(3)) and, the molecular weight, in comparison to the oxygen diatomic molecule (32.00) is of 48.00. Ozone has a cyclical structure with a distance among oxygen atoms of 1.26 Å and exists in several mesomeric states in dynamic equilibrium. For the physician it is useful to know that the solubility (ml) in 100 ml water (at 0°C) of either ozone or oxygen is either 49.0 ml or 4.89 (ten fold lower), respectively. Consequently the great solubility of ozone in water allows its immediate reaction with any soluble compounds and biomolecules present in biological fluids. Either traces of oxygen polymers (O(4)) or ozone polymers (O(6) and O(9)) can be generated but the idea that superactive ozone polymers/clusters may have a therapeutic role remains speculative (Cacace et al., 2001; Murai et al., 2003). |
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spelling | pubmed-74988692020-09-18 Physical-Chemical Properties of Ozone – Natural Production of Ozone: The Toxicology of Ozone Bocci, Velio OZONE Article As I already mentioned, ozone (from the Greek means to give off a smell) is a natural but unstable molecule. The pure gas has a soft sky-blue colour with a pungent, acrid smell. The molecule is composed of three oxygen atoms (O(3)) and, the molecular weight, in comparison to the oxygen diatomic molecule (32.00) is of 48.00. Ozone has a cyclical structure with a distance among oxygen atoms of 1.26 Å and exists in several mesomeric states in dynamic equilibrium. For the physician it is useful to know that the solubility (ml) in 100 ml water (at 0°C) of either ozone or oxygen is either 49.0 ml or 4.89 (ten fold lower), respectively. Consequently the great solubility of ozone in water allows its immediate reaction with any soluble compounds and biomolecules present in biological fluids. Either traces of oxygen polymers (O(4)) or ozone polymers (O(6) and O(9)) can be generated but the idea that superactive ozone polymers/clusters may have a therapeutic role remains speculative (Cacace et al., 2001; Murai et al., 2003). 2010-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7498869/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9234-2_1 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Bocci, Velio Physical-Chemical Properties of Ozone – Natural Production of Ozone: The Toxicology of Ozone |
title | Physical-Chemical Properties of Ozone – Natural Production of Ozone: The Toxicology of Ozone |
title_full | Physical-Chemical Properties of Ozone – Natural Production of Ozone: The Toxicology of Ozone |
title_fullStr | Physical-Chemical Properties of Ozone – Natural Production of Ozone: The Toxicology of Ozone |
title_full_unstemmed | Physical-Chemical Properties of Ozone – Natural Production of Ozone: The Toxicology of Ozone |
title_short | Physical-Chemical Properties of Ozone – Natural Production of Ozone: The Toxicology of Ozone |
title_sort | physical-chemical properties of ozone – natural production of ozone: the toxicology of ozone |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7498869/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9234-2_1 |
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