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What even is sunscreen and how does it screen the sun?

Chemistry For Your Life

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What Could Sunblock Be Doing?

Sunscreen would have to bounce the waves or reflect them somewhere else. That's one way that sunblock or sunscreen has. Very similar to what we talked about with microwaves, the inorganic compounds like metals reflect microwaves can also just reflect and divert away. It's so weird that they didn't talk about dispersion forces in Spiderman. I mean, it's such riveting information.

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