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The deoxygenated blod in the veins is a darker color than the bright red blood of arteries but it is more of a dark red or brown than blue colored. Veins look blue because that is the color of the vessel walls and skin.
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∙ 8y agoBlood is always red, actually. Veins look blue because light has to penetrate the skin to illuminate them, blue and red light (being of different wavelengths) penetrate with different degrees of success. What makes it back to your eye is the blue light.
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What veins carry oxygenated or blood red or blue?
Red veins carry oxygenated blood.
Why is the blood in your veins blue?
It's not. Blood is only darker red when it is in 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.
Is your blood blue or is it your veins?
Veins are blue because the blood is poor in oxygen, arteries are red because the blood is rich in oxygen.
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.
Why do you see red?
That's easy. When blood is in your body it is blue that's why your veins are blue. When oxygen meets the blood the blood turns red.
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.
How do you prove that blue veins carry red blood?
Because blood is actually blue, but once it hits the air, it turns red!
Why do you think you used blue and red ink in tracing the flow of the blood?
They use red and blue ink when tracing the flow of blood because red ink is for arteries and blue ink is for veins. This can cause a problem because people sometimes think that arteries have red blood and veins have blue blood, but this is not true.
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
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.
Does blue veins mean your dying?
No, blue veins does not mean you are dieing blue veins mean that the vein is carrying de-oxygenated blood which is being carried from the heart to the lungs to be turned into an oxygenated red artery because the lungs fill the blood up with oxygen. tip: oxygenated blood is a bright red de-oxygenated blood is a dull red
