What Are Eyeballs Made Of?
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SciShow is supported by Squarespace. Whether you need a domain, website, or online store, make it with Squarespace [♪ INTRO] Eyeballs are … weird. They’re these strange little blobs that sit inside your skull, and there’s nothing else in your body quite like them. They aren’t bone, but they aren’t soft like the tissue under your skin, either. Most of your eyeball isn’t even that white stuff you see from the outside. Most of your eye is actually a clear, jelly-like type of collagen, the same kind of structural protein that gives your nose and ears their shape. The whiteness you see when you look at your eye is the sclera the outer layer that holds the whole sac of goo together. But it’s just a tough, thin outer coat. The sclera covers everyw...
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SciShow is supported by Squarespace. Whether you need a domain, website, or online store, make it with Squarespace [♪ INTRO] Eyeballs are … weird. They’re these strange little blobs that sit inside your skull, and there’s nothing else in your body quite like them. They aren’t bone, but they aren’t soft like the tissue under your skin, either. Most of your eyeball isn’t even that white stuff you see from the outside. Most of your eye is actually a clear, jelly-like type of collagen, the same kind of structural protein that gives your nose and ears their shape. The whiteness you see when you look at your eye is the sclera the outer layer that holds the whole sac of goo together. But it’s just a tough, thin outer coat. The sclera covers everyw...
