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Veins are blue because the blood is poor in oxygen, arteries are red because the blood is rich in oxygen.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agono, on a diagram there are two colors, red and blue, red is for oyxgen-rich blood and blue is for oxygen-poor blood but only on the diagram
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Is the blood in your veins really blue and purple or does it just look that way?
Blood is blue in your veins!
He had blue blood in his veins?
A blood seems blue in veins because when a blood is in veins they are low in oxygen and therefore look blue. When they get oxygenated, they become red and are carried by the artery.
Why is the blood in your veins blue?
It's not. Blood is only darker red when it is in veins.
What kind of blood enters the veins?
they enter the blue veins
Why some times blood look blue on the veins?
Blood becomes blue when it is deprived of oxygen. These veins are returning de-oxygenated blood to the heart, making them appear blue.
What veins carry oxygenated or blood red or blue?
Red veins carry oxygenated blood.
What does the blue blood in your veins mean?
That you are a human.
Why do your vains look blue?
your veins look blue because your blood has no oxygen, when your blood is oxygenated it is red and when it is deoxygenated it is blue. veins carry blood toward the heart and are often blue while arteries carry blood away from the heart and are filled with oxygenated blood.
What color is the blood in the veins?
Some will say that the blood is blue in the veins because your veins are blue looking. This is incorrect. The blood is in fact red inside the veins, the veins just look blue due to the way the light passes through the fat and skin cells above.
Blood in the veins is usally what color?
It is an urban myth that unoxygenated blood (in veins) is blue - it is actually dark red.
Is our blood only blue on the inside?
Our blood is never blue. It is a commonly believed untruth. Blood in our veins is dark red, never blue.
Blood in the veins is usually what color?
Purple or blue The blood becomes red when it gets contact with oxygen this is why when you get blood drawn it looks purple or blue
