On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Joe AOL wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:39:49 -0700, Vaughn L.Porter wrote:
>
> Anyone seen the Godfather pt II? The red stuff was blood, Asuka had slit
> her wrists and was bleeding to death in the tub. It didn't turn all the water
> red because blood is heavier than water and would sink to the
> bottom.
>
> At least, that's my take.
>

Actually, blood is not a homogenous substance like oil,
so it doesn't have an overarching behavior like that.
In fact, the density of blood is quite close to water
because most of blood is plasma (water + blood proteins, etc.)
So blood and its components just disperse with the water.
It takes a lot of blood to make water uniformly red after dispersion
(that is, once it settles, not when it blood is first coming out)
because, while most of blood is plasma, it's the smaller portion
of red blood cells that make it red, specifically the hemoglobin
in the cells, more specifically the iron in the hemoglobin.
Meanwhile, what does rust have a lot of?  Yep.
Basically, rust is of a higher concentration of it,
so it takes less volume of rust to make the same water red
(or if similar volumes, makes the same water even redder)
but it mostly settles at the bottom and takes time to mix in
(unless you help it like stirring or disturbing the water).

Where was I going again?  ^_^;;

Laters. =)

                Stan
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