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Because some tubes have additives (ie Heparin and Potassium) that can contaminate the next blood tube and skew the results. For instance, if you put blood into the tube with Heparin and then the tube used for coagulation studies the Heparin has the potential to thin the blood in that tube giving you a falsely high result

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