To summarize some of my observations.

I described the fact that ozone is able to penetrate into and out of plastic air bags without violating the tightness of them in the article “Ozonized bread”.

A purely accidental observation.

Equally accidental was the detection of water evaporation from rubber and, obviously, polyacrylic bags (surgical gloves).

Similarly– the evaporation of freon 12 from plastic bags and again, without violating their tightness to the atmosphere gases – nitrogen and oxygen, and possibly argon.

Based on the last two effects, I suggested that there is a kind of CHAIN REACTION of SUBSTITUTION (or Substitution Chain Reaction), that is, the molecules of a certain substance enclosed in the above-described envelope combine with its substance, REPLACING ITS ORIGINAL MOLECULES OR PARTS OF POLYMER CHAINS, and gradually, along the chain of such substitution, penetrate to the other side.”the barrier.”

They DO NOT PERFORATE the barrier-membrane substance and DO NOT DIFFUSE through its micropores, but namely, by replacing the original barrier molecules, they pass through and “leak” through it.

(If they diffused through micropores, such as freon 12, which are polyatomic, large and massive molecules, then small, light and fast molecules of atmospheric gases would certainly have to do the same.)

“The parody-imitation of quantum tunnel effect.”

Based on the hypothesis of a Chain Reaction of Substitution, I assumed that ozone is capable of the same reaction, judging by the first paragraph of this note.

But at the same time, I found a strong destructive effect of even small concentrations of ozone on some polymers, rubber, for example. It has been established in repeated experiments that rings made of vulcanized rubber quickly disintegrate even under the influence of SMALL concentrations of ozone in the ambient air.

(It has long been known in chemistry about such an interesting effect of TRACES of OZONE, that is, extremely low concentrations of it: Mercury usually DOES NOT stick to glass, its meniscus is CONVEX in such a vessel. But even traces of ozone in the air cause ITS CAPILLARY ADHESION TO GLASS!)

It was just an introduction.

So, since ozone destroys (obviously, also due to a Chain Reaction of Substitution) the rubber polymer, then if you put car tires in chambers where ozone is supplied (under pressure or without it), and keep them there for a while, it, ozone, will destroy the polymer of tires, making it suitable for convenient and ecologically clean disposal, perhaps, “updates” for new manufacturing processes of some products, the same tires, for example.

This is much better than burning them, polluting the air and the environment, or, similarly, dumping them into the sea, creating supposedly comfortable homes for corals and other marine life, where their gradual decay will lead to slow water pollution with sulfur and other components of tires. Cooling tires in liquid air and destroying them with a crusher in this form seems to me to be a much more expensive process than obtaining ozone through either a quiet electric discharge or ultraviolet radiation with a wavelength of 1850 angstroms.

Since the molecules of triatomic oxygen, ozone, are unstable and rapidly undergo recombination into ordinary diatomic oxygen, this process itself is also environmentally friendly.

29 IV 2025