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THE MIRACLE IN THE ATOM

Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and sends down
water from the sky and by it brings forth fruits as provision for you.
He has made the ships subservient to you to run upon the sea by His
command, and He has made the rivers subservient to you,
and He has made the sun and moon subservient to you holding
steady to their courses, and He has made the night and day
subservient to you. He has given you everything you have asked
Him for. If you tried to number Allah's blessings, you could
never count them. Man is indeed wrongdoing, ungrateful.
(Surah Ibrahim: 32-34)

The staggering physical and chemical properties of water reveal that
this liquid has been created specially for human life. Allah gave life to peop-
le through water and by it has brought forth from the earth everything they
need in order to live. Allah summons people to think about this subject in
the Qur'an:
It is He Who sends down water from the sky from which We bring
forth growth of every kind, and from that We bring forth the green
shoots and from them We bring forth close-packed seeds, and from
the spathes of the date palm date clusters hanging down, and gardens
of grapes and olives and pomegranates, both similar and dissimilar.
Look at their fruits as they bear fruit and ripen. There are Signs in
that for people who believe. (Surat al-An'am: 99)

The Protective Ceiling: Ozone
The air we breathe, that is, the lower atmosphere, is in the main compo-
sed of oxygen gas. By oxygen gas, we mean O . That is to say that the oxygen
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molecules in the lower atmosphere are each comprised of two atoms. Howe-

ver, the oxygen molecule may sometimes be comprised of three atoms (O ).
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In this case, this molecule is no longer called oxygen, but "ozone", because
these two gases are quite different from each other.
One point needs mention here: while oxygen is formed when two oxy-
gen atoms combine, why is a different gas called ozone formed when three
oxygen atoms combine? Eventually, isn't it the oxygen atom that combines,

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