Question

assertion: animal hide soked in tannin reason in hardening of leather reason : tanning occurs due to mutual congulation.


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Answer 1

Answer:

Animal hide is colloidal in nature and has positively charged particles. When it is soaked in tanin (negatively charged), a colloid, it results in mutual coagulation and gets harden. Thus, leather get hardened after tanning.