Ozonation is a chemical water treatment technique based on the infusion of ozone into water. Ozone is a gas composed of three oxygen atoms (O3), which is already a powerful oxidant, lower only than fluorine atom, oxygen atom, and hydroxyl radical.
During the UVOX Redox purification process Ozone (O3) is formed out of Oxygen (O2) as result of the irradiation with UV-C 185 nm.
Some of the reactions of Ozone create the oxygen atom and hydroxyl radical to create an even higher oxidation potential than ozone alone. In many cases there is no explicit electron transfer, but rather an oxygen transfer from the Ozone molecule to the other compound.