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These compounds are melanins.
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What is the characteristics of chemical poisoning by touch?
Skin color
What chemical allows your skin to change color?
the pigment
What chemical gives us your skin color?
melanin
Is silver salts discoloring the skin a chemical property?
It is a chemical process, not property; but silver nitrate affect the skin by coloring - a black color appear.
Darkening chemical in skin that determines skin color?
Hormones have nothing to do with human skin color. Melanin, a pigment, determines skin color by the amount of it present in the skin. The more melanin, the darker the skin.
What pigments contribute to skin color?
melanin and carotene Carotene Melanin The chemical is called melanin.
Is getting a tan a chemical reaction?
Skin tanning is an example of a chemical reaction.
If you have dark knuckles and knees how do you lighten them to match your skin color?
There's no way that I know of because there is a certain chemical in your skin that makes it the color that it is. Perhaps plastic surgery. I don't think it's worth it though. Be happy in the skin your in. :)
How are black people black?
Skin color is determined by a chemical in the skin called Melanin. This is a pigment that protects the skin from UV rays. The higher concentration of Melanin people have, the darker their skin looks.
Does melanin function as a kind of sweat gland?
Melanin is not a sweat gland. Is is the chemical that provides skin color.
Is a chameleon changing color chemical or physical change?
It is a physical change. Preexisting pigments are moved to and from the surface of the skin, but the pigments themselves do not change.
What chemical reaction occurs when an iodine solution contacts human skin turning it yellow?
The chemical reaction that occurs is little particles in the air react with your skin and turns the color yellow. Iodine kills your skin and will eventually turn it black.
