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Stephen Cowell wrote:
>
> Stop it... I'm gonna hurl... *again*!
>
> Take a tablespoon of salt... put it in
> the sun. Tell us when it degrades.
> No fair letting it get wet... even though
> that wouldn't degrade it.
>
> In fact, you'd have a hard time making
> chlorine do anything but be chlorine.
> Go ahead and try....
>
> Of course, the point is, chlorine can't
> get to the stratosphere without being
> bound up into a gaseous molecule
> that is extremely strong... otherwise,
> rain would precipitate it out. That's
> the entire problem... chlorinated
> fluorocarbons are highly insoluble
> in water, and stay bound up until they
> get to the upper atmosphere where
> UV light can attack them.
> __
> Steve
> .