Cosmic Queries – Astrochemistry with Kate the Chemist
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What's the UV Doing to Skin Cancer?
Sunscreen has molecules in there that essentially absorb the ultraviolet radiation. And so when you run out of those sacrificial molecules, now you're just exposed. When COVID-19 kind of came out, they weren't sure in the very beginning if UV was going to be strong enough. They did a lot of research and they found out that we could actually use UV radiation to kill theCOVID-19 piece.
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