De-oxygenated Blood Turns Dark Red, Not Blue DAVEN HISKEY SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 0
Myth: De-oxygenated blood turns blue.
The common misconception that blood that lacks oxygen turns blue probably comes from the fact that veins appear blue and blood in the veins is typically heading back to the lungs, hence depleted of oxygen. It is also possibly from the fact that when people are suffocating or the like, their lips and complexion seem to turn blue-ish or purple.
People who perpetuate this myth often claim that the reason we never see blood in its blue form is that the instant we get cut, the blood is exposed to oxygen and thus, instantly turns red. Of course, when you get blood drawn from your veins that isn't exposed to air, we see that it is dark red, but let's not let such observations get in the way of a good myth.
In reality of course, it turns out that when blood is deprived of oxygen, it actually just turns dark red, as we often see when it is drawn when we are donating blood. When it's oxygenated, it turns a brighter red. This red color primarily comes from the hemoglobin, which contains four heme groups. These heme group's interactions with various molecules end up giving it the dark red or light red color we see. The hemoglobin itself is a protein that binds with oxygen to eventually be distributed throughout the body in blood.
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Yes. Blood becomes bright red when oxygenated in the lungs. Upon death, this bright red fades to red, then purple and then black in time.
Due to the lack of oxygen in the blood, the face turns black instead of its healthy red color when the blood is flowing
because you have blood vessels in your eyes and maybe you have had it before that one of those veins pop and then you have a red eye and then its over but if someone dies that blood gets old and old blood turn black so that blood in those tiny veins turns black so the white of the eye turn black after a while and that is why a dead persons eye turns black
Being born a black male or female makes a person black. Blood isn't black but red, and droplets of it doesn't turn a person any more black than they already are, if they are.
As pups, they are white, but as they age, they turn pretty yellow.
Oxygenated blood is bright red; deoxygenated blood is dark red.
no snake has black blood because all animal has red blood.
His eyes are not supposed to turn red after he drinks blood. Only the new born vampires eyes are red. When Edward has not drank blood in awhile his eyes are darker/black and when he does drink blood they lighten up to that golden color.
The lungs could be gray or have black spots.
Blood and red
When he is thirsty for blood, his eyes turn from gold to black. When vampires drink human blood their eyes are red, and when they start to turn amber afte a couple months, and eventually turn to gold.
it was blood