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Sugar-coated dyes live longer

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A spoonful of sugar could beat the faded favourite shirt blues.

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  1. Craig,M.R.,Hutchings, M.G., Claridge, T.D. & Anderson, H.L. Rotaxane-encapsulation enhances the stability of an azo dye, in solution and when bonded to cellulose. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 40,1071- 1074 2001.

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Ball, P. Sugar-coated dyes live longer. Nature (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/news010329-3

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