• Question: Is our blood actually green?

    Asked by 249sgde23 to Hayley on 17 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Hayley Moulding

      Hayley Moulding answered on 17 Mar 2016:

      No it isn’t. Our blood is red. Our blood is red because of a chemical called Haemoglobin. At the centre of haemoglobin is an atom of iron. Iron makes thing orange or red. When you see something metal rusting outside, it goes organgey colour. Our blood also tastes a little bit like metal because of the iron at the centre of the haemoglobin!

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