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Chemistry For Your Life
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The Effect of Metal Compounds on Sunscreen
When you put metal on microwave, it does not like it's not like affected by the waves in the same way. And so we're spreading this basically that this super thin layer of metal. All of our bodies of the metal compound salt. It sounds pretty cool to say it's a thin layer. But yeah, metal compound, salt, thing or whatever. When we do that, especially if we do it the right way and we do it thoroughly, then it re flex or bounces off all the UV. That's right. The way it's just like we see when it does that with microwaves. So it's not exactly the same, but it's very, very similar.
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