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If your blood replacement (whatever it might be) was able to store 50 times the amount of oxygen per volume vs real blood then there's no reason why things like
by aarongough 17y ago
If your blood replacement (whatever it might be) was able to store 50 times the amount of oxygen per volume vs real blood then there's no reason why things like this might not be possible.
They've already made headway toward something like this with artificial blood substitutes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycyte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycyte
- jodrellblank 17y agoNo known reason, maybe.
- rsheridan6 17y agoYou would have to have a way to get rid of the carbon dioxide or you would die of respiratory acidosis. CO2 + H2O -> H2CO3 -> H+ + HCO3-