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Why does hair shorten when humidity decrease
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Why does hair shorten when humidity decrease

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the higher level of hydrogen bonds in humid air lead to a creation of more hydrogen bonds in adjacent molecules in the hair strand 
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Well, when humidity increases, the hair relaxes, so it gets longer, and when it decreases, the hair tightens, getting shorter.
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