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April 21, 2014
White laundry no longer #GGGGGG
One of the unintended consequences of replacing incandescent bulbs with LED lamps (which emit less UV light) is that the
fluorescent compounds
in washing powder will be less effective in giving the "whiter than white" impression.
See the (open access)
original paper
and the discussion at
PhysOrg
and
Gizmodo
.
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