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Outside working in heat and humidity and my palms and fingers turn black. why?
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Some ideas.: cannot say in your particular case, but generally, it is more from contact with surfaces than one's own source of pigment. Chemicals certainly can come out in sweat. Metals?
Answered 5/8/2015
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