📚 noun • entry_id 35956
ozone hole
Meanings (ES + gloss)
agujero de ozono
A region of the stratosphere over Antarctica (and a smaller one over the Arctic) that is depleted of ozone in the local spring.
Callis says that the ozone hole now developing over the Antarctic is as deep as last year's hole, but seems to cover a smaller area.
When [Richard] Stolarski double-checked, he found that the depleted region covered all of Antarctica—and the “ozone hole” was born. It wasn't an instrument error. It was a real phe…
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