I was helping my mom in the kitchen today, and when I started chopping onions, my eyes started stinging and tearing up. But then I realized something weird – when we eat onions in our food, they don’t make us cry at all!Can someone explain why onions make us cry when we cut them
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Ok the compound in onions, sulfur among them, are released when you cut the cells. The sulfur becomes a gas and floats upward. The sulfur interacts with the water in your eyes and creates a weak solution of sulfuric acid.
It’s literally sulfuric acid in your eyes.
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