Subject: Hum-hum-hum.
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Posted on: 2014-11-18 07:43:00 UTC

I'm not sure I'd look at that blood and think 'blue-black'. Hmm...

The question of whether Andalites are oxygen-fixers is an interesting one, but I think it's a non-starter; the only other option in Earth's atmosphere is nitrogen, and I don't think it's reactive enough to fill the oxygen role. I guess you could do something weird with the fact that fixed nitrogen is a fertiliser, and the fact that they eat grass... not sure the world is ready for algae-powered Andalites, though.

So, oxygen fixing. I've just stumbled across the fact that cobalt can act similarly to iron in some organic molecules, and cobalt is known for its blueish colours. Cobalt(II) can be either blue or pink, and cobalt(II) iodide is actually described as blue-black - though I suspect that comes from the iodine.

Basically, this colour comes from cobalt, and feels very 'blue-black' to me. Whether there's a viable haemoglobin replacement (coboglobin?) is an open question, but I'd guess this is what they were thinking of with Ax.

hS

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