Why does leather stick to skin on hot days?

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When it’s a hot day and your sat or laying on leather seats, why when you go to get off does leather stick to your skin. Ive never had it with any other material. Ive always wondered why this happens.

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The stickyness in this scenario as far as I remember is a result of salt from the sweat and sweat itself creating colloid systems which create strong bonds between each other and between salt ions. Water itself can’t create strong enough bond to stick as much, but salt from two very complicated surfaces might do a trick?

But I’m a process engineering graduate so I might be wrong here

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