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When you cut an onion, you break cells, releasing their contents. Amino acid sulfoxides form sulfenic acids. Enzymes that were kept separate now are free to mix with the sulfenic acids to produce propanethiol S-oxide, a volatile sulfur compound that wafts upward toward your eyes. This gas reacts with the water in your tears to form sulfuric acid. The sulfuric acid burns, stimulating your eyes to release more tears to wash the irritant away.
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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.
Why don't some people cry while chopping onions?
Because it is the strong potency coming from the onion that reacts with the eye.
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.
Need ideas for drawing something that makes you cry?
You could draw an onion, they make you cry.
What does the expression how is your onion mean?
Good enough to make you cry!
How can I keep from crying when using an onion chopper?
To avoid crying while chopping an onion, you must first remove the bottom portion of the onion. This is where the roots come out and is the place that contains tear-inducing agents. You must remove it correctly or else you'll still cry.
What is the quickest way to chop an onion?
By chopping it.
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.
Do vadalia onions make you cry?
yes they particularly make you cry when you are chopping them to stop you from crying you can wear something over your eyes because your eyes are where crying comes from
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.
