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Scientists use common food dye to turn skin temporarily transparent
The synthetic dye used, called tartrazine, absorbs long-wave ultraviolet light (UV-A) and blue light. Red and orange-coloured light can penetrate the tissue. The researchers said the dye can be ...
E-number found in Doritos can turn skin invisible, scientists find
Tartrazine is found in a host of food products including cornflakes, sweets, energy drinks and chicken stock as well as ...
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Rendering Skin Transparent Using The Food Dye Tartrazine
The substance they used was the common food dye known as tartrazine, which also goes by the names of Yellow 5 and E102 when it is used in food (like Doritos), cosmetics, and drugs. By rubbing the ...
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Taste to dye for? Fried green peas fail the colour test
Out of the 95 samples analysed thus far, 32 were deemed safe, while 64 tested positive for Tartrazine. The remaining samples ...
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Achieving optical transparency in live animals with absorbing molecules (IMAGE)
Dr. Zihao Ou, assistant professor of physics at The University of Texas at Dallas, holds a vial of the common yellow food coloring tartrazine in solution. In an article published in Science ...