#chlorium

How does bleach turn clothes white?

I learned this today. Bleaches react with colored organic compounds and turn them into colorless ones. Bleaches by working on the chromophore of a molecule. This is the part of the molecule that is responsible for the color we see. Our eyes do not see color. Our eyes detect a wavelength of light, which they pass to our brains, and our brains associate that wavelength with a specific color. For…