Question #3540d
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Jul 13, 2014
Yes, ozone is an element.
Ozone is an allotropic form of oxygen. You can read about allotropy at
http://socratic.org/questions/what-is-allotropy
O₃ consists of one kind of atom, which is oxygen. When you build with one type of atom, the whole structure is an element.
O₂, ordinary oxygen, is also made only of oxygen atoms. The two elements are allotropes of each other.
