Removing yellow stains from fabric with blue light (IMAGE)

American Chemical Society

Removing yellow stains from fabric with blue light

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Exposing a sweat-like stain on cotton (left image) to a blue LED light for 10 minutes significantly removed the yellow color (right image).

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Tomohiro Sugahara

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