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hemin

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n. a reddish-brown chloride of heme; produced from hemoglobin in laboratory tests for the presence of blood [syn: protohemin ]

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The hemoglobin takes up molecular oxygen in the lung capillaries, ozonizes it, and since hemin is easily reduced, the red cells give up oxygen to the muscle cells that need it, in return for carbon dioxide.

After it takes up the carbon dioxide, hemin turns purple and enters the vein system on the way back to the lungs, and we can forget it.

In the red corpuscle, a mass of hemin stands by to seize the carbon dioxide and offer more oxygen.

Just as the amino-acid and the hemin reach toward one another, their electronic attractions are suddenly neutralized by a bolt of pure energy from me: the viton!

Raseri gathered chu root, leaves of the hemin bush, and the bitter, milky stalks of the pok weed.