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What is a stratosphere?

What is a stratosphere? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology, obsolete) Collectively, those layers of the Earth’s crust which primarily comprise stratified deposits.
  2. (meteorology) The region of the uppermost atmosphere where temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone. The stratosphere extends from the tropopause (10–15 kilometers) to approximately 50 kilometers, where it is succeeded by the mesosphere.
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She appears out of the shadows one night, like an exotic creature from another stratosphere.
Plinian eruptions are marked by columns of smoke and ash extending high into the stratosphere.
It eventually reaches the stratosphere, where it causes a thinning of the ozone layer.
Then 50 minutes after takeoff, the spacecraft separated from White Knight and rocketed into the stratosphere.
The balloon was designed to be the first to burst through into the stratosphere, as illustrated by our computer graphic below.
Before now, scientists merely theorized that dichlorine monoxide in the stratosphere played a key role in destroying ozone.

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