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Nov. 27th, 2001 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonwiseWent to the second of three seminars on green (i.e. environmentally responsible) chemistry tonight. The speaker showed a very disturbing photograph of a mouse in a fluorocarbon solvent, weighted down with a sinker, breathing dissolved O2 in the solvent. "Very happily breathing!" says the speaker.
*gets an attack of the extreme weirdies and has to look away*
And then the speaker talks about some technology, developed in France and Japan, that aimed to replace some of a person's blood with fluorocarbon solvent during surgery. Most blood used in surgery just runs out again, what a waste. Apparently you can replace up to 80% of blood in the body with fluorocarbon and the animal/person will live.
Arafel: AIEEEEEE *shudders to think of her veins coursing with clear fluid*
go ahead and do that on OTHER PEOPLE
don't do it on me.
*gets an attack of the extreme weirdies and has to look away*
And then the speaker talks about some technology, developed in France and Japan, that aimed to replace some of a person's blood with fluorocarbon solvent during surgery. Most blood used in surgery just runs out again, what a waste. Apparently you can replace up to 80% of blood in the body with fluorocarbon and the animal/person will live.
Arafel: AIEEEEEE *shudders to think of her veins coursing with clear fluid*
go ahead and do that on OTHER PEOPLE
don't do it on me.
