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Smog vs Ozone - What's the difference?

smog | ozone |

As verbs the difference between smog and ozone

is that smog is (smyga) while ozone is .

smog

English

Noun

(-)
  • A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution

    • Derived terms

    * smoggy

    Verb

    (smogg)
  • (informal) To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.
    • If the car is more than five years old, you'll have to have it smogged before you can register it.

    See also

    * smaze

    Anagrams

    * ----

    ozone

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia ozone) (-)
  • (chemistry) An allotrope of oxygen (symbol O3) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a blue gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge.
  • (from an erroneous former belief that seaweed contains and releases ozone) Fresh air, especially that breathed at the seaside and smelling of seaweed.
  • * 1875 , (William Crookes), The Chemical News , page 99,
    • A patent obtained in England, and specified far from clearly, for obtaining ozone' by boiling seaweed,†† may be mentioned as a curiosity, and also the credulity with which ' ozone -baths, prepared in this manner, find a ready sale, in spite of, or perhaps rather on account of, their high price.
  • * 1888 , L. T. Meade, A. Balfour Symington, Edwin Oliver, , Volume 1, page 674,
    • To Ramsgate baths she sped, in quest / Of seaweed and ozone' ; / For seaweed and ' ozone were best, / They said, to give her tone.
  • * 2007 , Robert Douglas, Tales of the Unexpected'', ''Somewhere to Lay My Head , unnumbered page,
    • It's got the lot: fresh sea air, ozone , seaweed. You could cut the air with a knife.

    Derived terms

    * ozone bath * ozone layer * ozone resistance * ozone therapy

    Related terms

    * (chemistry)