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The initial ozone concentration is . Over fifty days with twelve active hours per day, the required combined daytime rate is
The mixed chlorine-bromine ozone-loss cycle also consumes two ozone molecules per radical-pair reaction, so . Subtracting the dimer contribution yields
The same result follows by assigning the dimer ppm of the fifty-day loss and the mixed cycle the remaining ppm. This uses the same daylight fraction for both cycles and retains the earlier fixed-ClO approximation. It estimates a sunlit BrO abundance, not the total inventory of bromine in all reservoirs.

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