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Why Doesn't Super Glue go Hard in the Tube?

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Hair Bleach

We spoke about hair bleaching before people who spend a lot of time in the sun. Is this a summoner phenomenon that happens when we're talking about store bought domestic detergent bleach and what happens in the bleaching of our clothes and even our hair? You lay on the beach and sunlight produces or results in reactions with the surface of your hair which produce these charged or reactive species like this person Andrew Mills plastic. It will produce reactive molecules that will then leap onto the melanin that makes our hair a dark color and attack it, break it down. If you break down the melanin it stops being black or brown or a golden color and becomes more white so your hair does look lighter

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