Why does washing some clothes in hot water make them shrink?
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What shrinks the most is stuff like sheep wool. That’s because those are long protein molecules which get destroyed by heat as protein has a tendency to do so above about 40° Celsius. They loose their 3D alignment which isn’t reversible and therefore shrink, never to be the same again.
That’s probably the only thing I learned in chemistry class 😂
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