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Question
Give reasons for the following observations: Leather gets hardened after tanning.
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Solution
Animal skin (hide) is colloidal in nature and has positively charged particles, whereas tanning consists of negatively charged colloidal particles. When a hide is soaked in tanning, mutual coagulation takes place and as a result, leather gets hardened.
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