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Is My Blood Really Blue? by COLOURlovers
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/07/26/color-in-science...
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28 months, 1 week, 3 hours agoYou probably learned your basic human anatomy sometime around grade school. Textbooks said your blood was red and a scraped knee on the playground confirmed it. We bleed red because of hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein that carries oxygen throughout the body. Hemoglobin is comprised of iron, which oxidizes as red like rust, causing our blood to be bright red when oxygen rich. So…
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