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The Chemistry of the Colours of Bodily Fluids

31-Mar-2017

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The Chemistry of the Colours of Bodily Fluids

A particular bodily fluid featured in the political news earlier this week, which got me thinking about the chemical causes behind the colours of the waste products we expel from our bodies. What makes urine golden, faeces brown, and bile green? The answers to all of these questions have a common chemical link.

Topics
  • blood
  • haemoglobin
  • Biliverdin
  • bilirubin
  • urobilins
  • stercobilin
  • liver
  • bile
  • tetrapyrroles
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