What is O2 and O3?

1 Answer
Feb 27, 2017

Well, these are oxygen molecules........or oxygen allotropes........

Explanation:

O_2 is the oxygen you are breathing now, and comprises some 20.95% of the atmosphere..........

..........under exceptional circumstances, oxygen can exist as the ozone molecule, O_3, a bent molecule whose Lewis structure we would represent as ""^(-)O-O^(+)=O. This site reports that ozone comprises "0.6 ppm" of the atmosphere.