Assertion: chlorofluorocarbon's chlorine | /r/CapableOf | destroy ozone
Facets:
value: in catalytic reactions
type: MANNER
value: for decades
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The UV cleavage releases chlorine, and the free chlorine destroys ozone.
text: first scientists made predictions that chlorine was destroying the ozone, and we indeed found that it was happening," Newman says.
text: Chlorine is able to destroy so much of the ozone because it acts as a catalyst.
text: Furthermore, the long lifetime of CFCs means that even a free chlorine from one CFC compound can destroy ozone for decades.
text: Chlorine released from CFCs destroys ozone in catalytic reactions where 100,000 molecules of ozone can be destroyed per chlorine atom.