What is the result of discharge of electric charge during lightning?

Fixation of sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere

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Formation of ozone layer

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Production of infrared rays

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Depletion of ozone layer

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Formation of ozone layer

Due to lightening the $O_{2}$ molecule gets dissociated into two oxygen and this oxygen atom is highly reactive and it reacts with the $O_{2}$ molecule and form ozone gas $(O_{3})$ . Lightening has high temperature due to this spark the $O_{2}$ molecules gets dissociated into two oxygen atom.

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