Popular Science | Doritos Dye Makes Mice TRANSPARENT?! @popularscience | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 minutes ago.
Tartrazine, commonly called Yellow 5, is a dye that was discovered in the 1880s. It's been used for food and cosmetics for generations... but it turns out that it can change the refractive index of water to allow us to see through mice and to expose their internal organs.
"The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent," Popular Science: popsci.com/science/dye-mice-transparent
#science #sciencefacts #weird #animals #animalshorts
Tartrazine, commonly called Yellow 5, is a dye that was discovered in the 1880s. It's been used for food and cosmetics for generations... but it turns out that it can change the refractive index of water to allow us to see through mice and to expose their internal organs.
"The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent," Popular Science: popsci.com/science/dye-mice-transparent
#science #sciencefacts #weird #animals #animalshorts
