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Why do blood cells look red?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Note that not all blood cells are red; there are also white blood cells. Red blood cells contain a chemical called hemoglobin, and hemoglobin includes an iron atom, and when the iron atom has an oxygen molecule loosely attached to it (by a coordinate covalent bond) it will have a red color (for a deeper explanation it is necessary to examine the structure of the electron orbitals in the iron atom).

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