Plastic can also smother corals - depriving them of the light and water circulation that they need - and scrape their skin, allowing infections to enter and spread.
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In addition, fire corals have a sharp, calcified external skeleton that can scrape the skin.
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The peelers rotate, scraping the skin off the carrots.
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