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UV Topps or Trash

Matt Grade 4

My question is what substances can ultra-violet protection (UV) protect? It protects against the oils on your hand and against the sun damage on some surfaces. I am interested in this because I like and collect baseball cards and want to see how good this UV protection is on the cards.

The materials I am using to test this are: laundry detergent, hot water, alcohol, vinegar, paper, and soda. I plan to put the cards into the liquids and observe what happens.

My hypothesis is that the card coated with UV will stand up to all liquids except alcohol, soda and vinegar.

The chart explains the results.

SodaVinegarHot WaterDetergentAlcohol
1/4 of the card got crusty and the picture peeledgot crustycard got flakycorners of the card split and got a film on itcorners of the card split and the ink blurred

Conclusion: My conclusion is that from the tests I did I can't tell if UV is tops. I will have to retest and set up the experiments in a different way.

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