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Sensitive-Hold-8196 t1_jd4wylm wrote

Yeah, I don't really understand any of these fancy words, but could you just let me know if I need to wear safety goggles when I'm using my curling iron？

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Fantastic-Berry-737 OP t1_jd60zqr wrote

Ever since learning about polymer crosslinking I haven't taken my safety googles off for a minute

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crimefighterplatypus t1_jd638i0 wrote

Amino acid is a building block to make a protein. Imagine a single amino acid as a bead, and a protein has many beads strung together. Cysteine is one of those “beads”, use to make a part of a protein, called the polymer. Imagine you took a bunch of strings with beads and tied them together to make a large necklace, thats the entire protein. In this case that protein is keratin. Cysteine is also found in bird feathers and horse hooves

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