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When you cut them, the enzymes inside combine to make a gas that wafts up from the onion. This gas is an irritant, so when it gets in your eyes they water in order to wash the irritant away. You can avoid this by cutting the onion under water, or chilling it.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 10y agoIt is called Chemistry or in this case Biochemistry.Also the jucie inside gose th your eye and it makes you cry.
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What won't cry but will make you cry if you remove its skin?
That would be an onion. Onions don't cry, but the people who peel them do.
What does the expression how is your onion mean?
Good enough to make you cry!
Need ideas for drawing something that makes you cry?
You could draw an onion, they make you cry.
Do red onions make you cry most?
no they dont make you cry the purple onion is sweet so you dont have to chill them
Does the gas from an onion have to reach your eyes to make you cry?
No... just your nose.
Will a frozen onion make people cry?
no it will not the air that makes people cry is frozen and will no longer burn your eyes.
What is the natural life span of an onion?
So short, it'll make you cry.
What part of a onion makes you cry?
All onions make you cry, because when you cut them, the enzymes inside combine to make a gas that wafts up from the onion. When the gas touches the water in your eyes, it forms sulfuric acid, which is what makes your eyes cry in order to wash the irritant away. You can avoid this by cutting the onion under water, or chilling it.
What food makes you cry?
Onion:When we cut onion 2 chemicals like sulfoxides and enzymes to form gas when this gas reach our eye it makes cry now usually to avoid crying we wash the onion then we see crying chemicals if we make next onion we will wear goggles to protect our eyes thus gas do not reach our eyes.
What do you do when 2 years old puppie eats an onion?
Avoid the puppy farts that will make you cry.
Why does chopping of onion makes cry?
In 2012 the Japanese discovered that lachrymatory-factor synthase released by the onion makes a person tear. You don't cry in the strictest sense, the synthase make the eye produce tears to wash out of the eye.
Will an onion still make you cry if you stick it in the freezer before cutting it?
Peel it and cut it (to the extent possible) under running water, and this will reduce the tendency to cry.
