How does bleach remove color?
Chemistry For Your Life
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How Does Bleach Work?
It is hard to think about describing why things have color without talking about their molecular properties. Things have color because of the way they'r electrons absorb light. bleach is a strong oxidizing agent, ok? Have you heard that phrase before? Oxidizing agent? Am like oxiclen? Oh, yes, oxiclens, probably an oxidizing agent. We literally just have been going over this in my organic chemistry class. You need to know what i just described to be able to talk about bleach.
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