Indigo Carmine is used a a medicinal stain because its
  colorfast. Colorfast or lightfast colors are ones that are
  naturally UV protective. They're typi...cally formed in space
  rather than on earth, where something of an yellow-orange gets
  BLASTED with the full spectrum of ultraviolet rays and turns
  Indigo. That's what gives it its UV protection."

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