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What was unusual about the ozone layer above Antarctica?

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It was too thick.

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The thickness had depleted.

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It had disappeared.

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There was a new constituent gas.

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Solution

The correct option is B The thickness had depleted.
Around the 1980s, scientists discovered that the thickness of the ozone layer above Antarctica had depleted by around 50%.

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