The soft spot modern people tend to have for carrying leather handbags and wearing leather shoes also means that leather factories have to use chrome and its compounds to tan hides, making them pliable and easy to cut.
摩登的現代人手挽真皮皮包，足蹬真皮皮鞋，皮革工廠則必需先利用「鉻」及其化合物來揉皮，使之柔軟，方便裁製。