Re: OT: blue blood Re: Letf / Right, was Re: Count and mass nouns:Re:Red

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> They're saying that the actual blood isn't blue, just as blood looked at
> through a blue filter isn't actually black.  If you cut open a vain, it
> would still be red and pretty.
But as long a you do that in an oxygenated atmosphere, the blood immediately
oxygenates, and get alot redder. If you took care to do it in an oxygen-free
place, venuous (sp?) blood is alot darker - dark purplish-reddish. Not
anything I'd call 'blood red'.

                                                       Andreas