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Why does ozone act as a powerful oxidising agent ?

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(i) Ozone acts as a powerful oxidizing agent because ozone liberates nascent oxygen very easily on decomposition.
`O_(3)rarr O_(2)+[O]`
(ii) This nascent or atomic oxygen brings about the oxidation as it is very reactive.
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