@Gopnik_Conscript CFCβs are chlorofluorocarbons. There are used for high pressure (and low pressure) refrigerants for residential and commercial air conditioning. The use of the chemical is condensing and evaporating to result in a desired heat transfer due to the evaporating and condensing process. The concept of why CFCβs are bad for the ozone isnβt a mystery and itβs viable. When CFCβs are released in the atmosphere they break down from UV rays, usually this only happens after they are lifted higher up in the atmosphere such as the stratosphere where the ozone layer is located. When the CFC molecule breaks down it isolates the chlorine atom. When chlorine isnβt paired it is unstable and seeks pairing with oxygen. It will take an oxygen atom from ozone (o3) and turn the ozone into o2 (what we breathe) and the chlorine will turn into chlorine monoxide. Chlorine monoxide is also unstable as well, the oxygen atom in the molecule wants to pair with another oxygen atom so when there is a free oxygen atom the oxygen will split from the chlorine and form o2. This process repeats over and over again millions of times. o2 in that scale is not beneficial but the depletion of ozone is detrimental.
