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Q435
what did ronald reagan do as president
Ronald Reagan
He was re-elected in a landslide in 1984 , proclaiming that it was " Morning in America ".
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what did ronald reagan do as president
Ronald Reagan
His second term was primarily marked by foreign matters, such as the ending of the Cold War , the 1986 bombing of Libya , and the revelation of the Iran-Contra affair .
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what did ronald reagan do as president
Ronald Reagan
Publicly describing the Soviet Union as an " evil empire ", he supported anti-communist movements worldwide and spent his first term forgoing the strategy of détente by ordering a massive military buildup in an arms race with the USSR.
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what did ronald reagan do as president
Ronald Reagan
Reagan negotiated with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev , culminating in the INF Treaty and the decrease of both countries' nuclear arsenals.
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what did ronald reagan do as president
Ronald Reagan
Reagan left office in 1989.
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what did ronald reagan do as president
Ronald Reagan
In 1994, the former president disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier in the year; he died ten years later at the age of 93.
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what did ronald reagan do as president
Ronald Reagan
A conservative icon, he ranks highly in public opinion polls of U.S. Presidents and is credited for generating an ideological renaissance on the American political right .
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Q438
how much hp does 2005 kawasaki 636 have
Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R
The Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R is a Kawasaki 600 cc class sport motorcycle .
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how much hp does 2005 kawasaki 636 have
Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R
It was introduced in 1995, and has been constantly updated throughout the years in response to new products from Honda , Suzuki , and Yamaha .
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how much hp does 2005 kawasaki 636 have
Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R
The ZX series is what was known as the Ninja line of Kawasaki motorcycles in the 1980s and still carries the name today.
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Q441
how many presidents have been assassinated
List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots
Assassination attempts and plots on Presidents of the United States have been numerous: more than 20 attempts to kill sitting and former presidents, as well as the Presidents-elect , are known.
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how many presidents have been assassinated
List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots
Four sitting presidents have been killed: Abraham Lincoln (the 16th President), James A. Garfield (the 20th President), William McKinley (the 25th President) and John F. Kennedy (the 35th President).
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how many presidents have been assassinated
List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots
Two presidents were injured in attempted assassinations: former President Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th President), and President Ronald Reagan (the 40th President).
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how many presidents have been assassinated
List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots
Although the historian J.W. Clarke has suggested that most American assassinations were politically motivated actions, carried out by rational men, not all such attacks have been undertaken for political reasons.
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how many presidents have been assassinated
List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots
Some attackers had questionable mental stability, and a few were judged legally insane.
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how many presidents have been assassinated
List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots
Since the Vice President of the United States has for more than a century been elected from the same political party as the President, the assassination of the President is unlikely to result in major policy changes.
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how many presidents have been assassinated
List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots
This may explain why political groups typically do not make such attacks.
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Q442
what genre is where the red fern grows
Where the Red Fern Grows
Where the Red Fern Grows is a novel written by Wilson Rawls in 1961 about a boy who buys and trains two Redbone Coonhound hunting dogs.
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Q443
what does oklahoma produce
Oklahoma
Oklahoma () ( Pawnee : Uukuhuúwa, Cayuga : Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state located in West South Central United States .
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what does oklahoma produce
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is the 20th most extensive and the 28th most populous of the 50 United States .
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what does oklahoma produce
Oklahoma
The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning "red people", and it is known informally by its nickname, The Sooner State.
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what does oklahoma produce
Oklahoma
Formed by the combination of Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory on November 16, 1907, Oklahoma was the 46th state to enter the union.
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what does oklahoma produce
Oklahoma
Its residents are known as Oklahomans or, informally "Okies", and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City .
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what does oklahoma produce
Oklahoma
A major producer of natural gas , oil , and agriculture, Oklahoma relies on an economic base of aviation, energy, telecommunications, and biotechnology .
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what does oklahoma produce
Oklahoma
It has one of the fastest growing economies in the nation, ranking among the top states in per capita income growth and gross domestic product growth.
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what does oklahoma produce
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City and Tulsa serve as Oklahoma's primary economic anchors, with nearly two thirds of Oklahomans living within their metropolitan statistical areas .
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what does oklahoma produce
Oklahoma
With small mountain ranges, prairie , mesas , and eastern forests, most of Oklahoma lies in the Great Plains and the U.S. Interior Highlands —a region especially prone to severe weather .
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what does oklahoma produce
Oklahoma
In addition to having a prevalence of English , German , Scottish , Irish and Native American ancestry, more than 25 Native American languages are spoken in Oklahoma, second only to California.
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what does oklahoma produce
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is located on a confluence of three major American cultural regions and historically served as a route for cattle drives , a destination for southern settlers, and a government-sanctioned territory for Native Americans.
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Q444
how many redwall books are there
Redwall
Redwall, by Brian Jacques , is a series of children's fantasy novels.
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how many redwall books are there
Redwall
It is the title of the first book of the series, published in 1986, as well as the name of the Abbey featured in the book and the name of an animated TV series based on three of the novels ( Redwall , Mattimeo , and Martin the Warrior ), which first aired in 1999.
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how many redwall books are there
Redwall
The books are primarily aimed at older children, but have fans of all ages.
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how many redwall books are there
Redwall
There have been twenty-two novels and two picture books published.
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how many redwall books are there
Redwall
The twenty-second, and final, novel, The Rogue Crew , was posthumously released on May 3, 2011.
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Q445
how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
Natural Gas is usually measured by volume in the United States and is stated in cubic feet.
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
A cubic foot of gas is the amount of gas needed to fill a volume of one cubic foot under set conditions of pressure and temperature.To measure larger amounts of natural gas, a "therm" is used to denote 100 cubic feet, and "mcf" is used to denote 1,000 cubic feet.
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Q445
how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
To provide greater accuracy in comparing fuels, energy content is measured in terms of "British Thermal Units (BTU's)."
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
A BTU is the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water (approximately a pint), one degree Fahrenheit at or close to its point of maximum density.
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
One British therm (symbol thm) is a non- SI unit of heat energy equal to 100,000 British thermal units (BTU).
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
It is approximately the energy equivalent of burning 100 cubic feet (often referred to as 1 CCF) of natural gas .
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
Since (Natural Gas) meters measure volume and not energy content, a therm factor is used by (Natural) gas companies to convert the volume of gas used to its heat equivalent, and thus calculate the actual energy use.
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
The therm factor is usually in the units therms/CCF.
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
It will vary with the mix of hydrocarbons in the natural gas.
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
Natural gas with a higher than average concentration of ethane , propane or butane will have a higher therm factor.
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
Impurities, such as carbon dioxide or nitrogen , lower the therm factor.
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
The volume of the gas is calculated as if measured at standard temperature and pressure (STP).
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
The heat content of natural gas is solely dependent on the composition of the gas, and is independent of temperature and pressure.
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
One therm is equal to about 105.5 megajoules , 25,200 kilocalories or 29.3 kilowatt-hours .
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
One therm can also be provided by about of natural gas.
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
The therm sometimes has been confused with the thermie (see below).
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
The names of both units come from the Greek word for heat.
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
A thermie (th) is a metric unit of heat energy, part of the meter-tonne-second system sometimes used by European engineers.
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
The thermie is equal to the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 tonne of water by 1 °C.
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how many decatherms in a therm
Therm
The thermie is equivalent to 1,000 kilocalories, 4.1868 megajoules or 3968.3 BTU.
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Q446
what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
The American Civil War (ACW), also known as the War between the States or simply the Civil War (see naming ), was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 between the United States (the "Union" or the "North") and several Southern slave states that declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy" or the "South").
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
The war had its origin in the issue of slavery , especially the extension of slavery into the western territories.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
Foreign powers did not intervene.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
After four years of bloody combat that left over 600,000 soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity and guaranteeing rights to the freed slaves began.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
In the 1860 presidential election , Republicans, led by Abraham Lincoln , opposed expanding slavery into United States' territories .
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
Lincoln won, but before his inauguration on March 4, 1861, seven cotton-based slave states formed the Confederacy.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
Outgoing Democratic President James Buchanan and the incoming Republicans rejected secession as illegal.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
Lincoln's inaugural address declared his administration would not initiate civil war.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
Eight remaining slave states continued to reject calls for secession.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
Confederate forces seized numerous federal forts within territory claimed by the Confederacy.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
A Peace Conference failed to find a compromise, and both sides prepared for war.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
The Confederates assumed that European countries were so dependent on " King Cotton " that they would intervene; none did and none recognized the new Confederate States of America.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumter , a key fort held by Union troops in South Carolina.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
Lincoln called for each state to provide troops to retake the fort; consequently, four more slave states joined the Confederacy, bringing their total to eleven.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
The Union soon controlled the border states and established a naval blockade that crippled the southern economy.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
The Eastern Theater was inconclusive in 1861–62.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
The autumn 1862 Confederate campaign into Maryland (a Union state) ended with Confederate retreat at the Battle of Antietam , dissuading British intervention.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation , which made ending slavery a war goal.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
To the west, by summer 1862 the Union destroyed the Confederate river navy, then much of their western armies, and the Union at Vicksburg split the Confederacy in two at the Mississippi River.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
In 1863, Robert E. Lee's Confederate incursion north ended at the Battle of Gettysburg .
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
Western successes led to Ulysses S. Grant command of all Union armies in 1864.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
In the Western Theater, William T. Sherman drove east to capture Atlanta and marched to the sea , destroying Confederate infrastructure along the way.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
The Union marshaled the resources and manpower to attack the Confederacy from all directions, and could afford to fight battles of attrition through the Overland Campaign towards Richmond, the Confederate capital.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
The defending Confederate army failed, leading to Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars .
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
Railroads, the telegraph, steamships, and mass-produced weapons were employed extensively.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
The mobilization of civilian factories, mines, shipyards, banks, transportation and food supplies all foreshadowed World War I .
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
It remains the deadliest war in American history , resulting in the deaths of an estimated 750,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties.
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what date did the american civil war start
American Civil War
Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40.
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Q449
how does the e coli bacteria cause death
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli (; commonly abbreviated E. coli) is a Gram-negative , rod-shaped bacterium that is commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms (endotherms).
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how does the e coli bacteria cause death
Escherichia coli
Most E. coli strains are harmless, but some serotypes can cause serious food poisoning in humans , and are occasionally responsible for product recalls due to food contamination .
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how does the e coli bacteria cause death
Escherichia coli
The harmless strains are part of the normal flora of the gut , and can benefit their hosts by producing vitamin K2 , and by preventing the establishment of pathogenic bacteria within the intestine.
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how does the e coli bacteria cause death
Escherichia coli
E. coli and related bacteria constitute about 0.1% of gut flora , and fecal–oral transmission is the major route through which pathogenic strains of the bacterium cause disease.
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how does the e coli bacteria cause death
Escherichia coli
Cells are able to survive outside the body for a limited amount of time, which makes them ideal indicator organisms to test environmental samples for fecal contamination .
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how does the e coli bacteria cause death
Escherichia coli
There is, however, a growing body of research that has examined environmentally persistent E. coli which can survive for extended periods outside of the host.
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how does the e coli bacteria cause death
Escherichia coli
The bacterium can also be grown easily and inexpensively in a laboratory setting, and has been intensively investigated for over 60 years.
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how does the e coli bacteria cause death
Escherichia coli
E. coli is the most widely studied prokaryotic model organism , and an important species in the fields of biotechnology and microbiology , where it has served as the host organism for the majority of work with recombinant DNA .
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Q454
what causes destruction of the ozone layer
Ozone depletion
Image of the largest Antarctic ozone hole ever recorded (September 2006), over the Southern pole
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what causes destruction of the ozone layer
Ozone depletion
Layers of the atmosphere (not to scale)
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what causes destruction of the ozone layer
Ozone depletion
Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related phenomena observed since the late 1970s: a steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth 's stratosphere (the ozone layer ), and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions.
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what causes destruction of the ozone layer
Ozone depletion
The latter phenomenon is referred to as the ozone hole.
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what causes destruction of the ozone layer
Ozone depletion
In addition to these well-known stratospheric phenomena, there are also springtime polar tropospheric ozone depletion events .
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what causes destruction of the ozone layer
Ozone depletion
The details of polar ozone hole formation differ from that of mid-latitude thinning, but the most important process in both is catalytic destruction of ozone by atomic halogens .
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Q454
what causes destruction of the ozone layer
Ozone depletion
The main source of these halogen atoms in the stratosphere is photodissociation of man-made halocarbon refrigerants ( CFCs , freons , halons ).
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Q454
what causes destruction of the ozone layer
Ozone depletion
These compounds are transported into the stratosphere after being emitted at the surface.
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what causes destruction of the ozone layer
Ozone depletion
Both types of ozone depletion were observed to increase as emissions of halo-carbons increased.
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