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  2. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  3. Hair coloring - Wikipedia

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    A woman with dyed pink hair. Hair coloring, or hair dyeing, is the practice of changing the color of the hair on humans' heads.The main reasons for this are cosmetic: to cover gray or white hair, to alter hair to create a specific look, to change a color to suit preference or to restore the original hair color after it has been discolored by hairdressing processes or sun bleaching.

  4. Human hair color - Wikipedia

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    A variety of human hair colors; from top left, clockwise: black, brown, blonde, white, red. Human hair color is the pigmentation of human hair follicles and shafts due to two types of melanin: eumelanin and pheomelanin. Generally, the more melanin present, the darker the hair. Its tone depends on the ratio of black or brown eumelanin to yellow ...

  5. FDA is thinking about a ban on hair-straightening chemicals ...

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    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering a ban on certain hair-straightening chemicals that have been used by Black women for years and that research shows may increase the risk of ...

  6. Is Ketoconazole More Effective Than Minoxidil?

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    Minoxidil was the most effective of the three. So, if you’re looking for proven hair loss treatments, minoxidil (or finasteride, for that matter) is definitely a better bet than ketoconazole ...

  7. Lead poisoning - Wikipedia

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    Lead in the bones, teeth, hair, and nails is bound tightly and not available to other tissues, and is generally thought not to be harmful. [177] In adults, 94% of absorbed lead is deposited in the bones and teeth, but children only store 70% in this manner, a fact which may partially account for the more serious health effects on children. [ 23 ]

  8. List of Crayola crayon colors - Wikipedia

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    All 16 Crayola Heads 'n Tails crayon colors. The eight Heads 'n Tails Crayons are double-sided and encased in plastic tubes that function much like the ones on Crayola Twistables. Each crayon has two shades of color, for a total of 16 colors, which are approximated by the background colors and hex RGB values below.

  9. Rayon - Wikipedia

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    Rayon, also called viscose[ 1] and commercialised in some countries as sabra silk or cactus silk, [ 2] is a semi-synthetic fiber, [ 3] made from natural sources of regenerated cellulose, such as wood and related agricultural products. [ 4] It has the same molecular structure as cellulose.