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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.chem,sci.med
Subject: Re: Butane death
Message-ID: <4641@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 22 Sep 89 22:03:25 GMT
References: <89262.194442RAV103@PSUVM.BITNET> <3398@kitty.UUCP> <4633@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> <469@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
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In article <469@castle.ed.ac.uk> djm@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy) writes:
>In article <4633@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
>>I had always understood that methemoglobin is simply an oxidized form
>>of hemoglobin, with the ferrous iron (Fe++) in heme oxidized to the
>>ferric (Fe+++) state.
>
>No. There is no iron oxidation in the hemoglobin - oxyhemoglobin reaction.

Oh, for God's sakes, read what I wrote.  I wasn't writing about
the hemoglobin-oxyhemoglobin reaction.
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