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As Seen On TV: Science Gets Your Whites Their Whitest

In the first installment of As Seen On TV, we look at what that bearded guy has been yelling about and why his excitement might be valid

Watching trashy TV late at night hardly provokes most people to think about laundry. Billy Mays seems to think that screaming about detergent will change that. But just what is that enthusiastic-to-the-point-of-belligerent pitchman yelling about? That would be OxiClean. On the commercial, Mays shouts that it uses the power of oxygen to miraculously clean. But does it actually work? The answer is sometimes, and knowing how it works explains why

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