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Morec0
Human blood is red because of iron being used to bind oxygen to it. In World of Warcraft, it's been speculated that cobalt is used to bind oxygen to the blood of draenei, making it blue, and orcs' black blood... is a mystery (although may be just because of magic).
I've asked the chemisty professor at my school, and he says that any of the elements in the came column as iron (namely: Ruthenium, Osminum, Hassium) could possibly be used to bind oxygen for use as well. To the best of my ability, though, I cannont find anything about what color the oxidation of those metals would create.
So here's my question: what elements would give blood a black, dark green (copper producing a much lighter green color than what I'm thinking), violet (although I think
Hemocyanin
is close enough for that), or anything else you may know of?
All help is greatly appreciated.
Post by
Orranis
*Sniff sniff*
I was smelling for Old God's and I found this thread. Funny.
There a reason this smells like Saronite?
Good to see you Morec.
Though I don't think I can help you.
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Morec0
*Sniff sniff*
I was smelling for Old God's and I found this thread. Funny.
There a reason this smells like Saronite?
Good to see you Morec.
Though I don't think I can help you.
Saronite would be a good example of dark green (well... almost) blood, which only continues to peak my interest in what possible elements could create such as color (looking at saronite, it's most likely copper).
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Orranis
Oh, I thought this was for some weird fan-fic or something.
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
Green
Blue
Violet/Pink
Those are the only respiratory pigments I know of besides hemoglobin.
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Morec0
Oh, I thought this was for some weird fan-fic or something.
A science-fiction novel I'm working on, actually. Hence why the question is posted in Off-Topic instead of L&RP. The WoW examples were the only ones I could redily think of to help explain what I was thinking.
And the links are appreciated, Hyper.
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