Why does leather get hardened after tanning?
The skin of an animal is colloidal in nature and carries positive charge. Tannin is a negatively charged colloidal solution. When leather is soaked in tannin, coagulation takes place due to the interaction of positively charged animal skin and negatively charged tannin. Thus leather gets hardened.
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