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| Thread ID: 145696 | 2018-01-08 20:09:00 | Blue Blooded | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1444545 | 2018-01-08 20:09:00 | Heard something interesting this morning. Do you know why the aristocracy is called blue blooded? They used to use silver cutlery, silver plates and silver service, and the ingested silver turned their blood blue. I did not know that. Thought you'd like to know. Most fascinating. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1444546 | 2018-01-08 20:30:00 | Rubbish! Where did you learn that from? | Richard (739) | ||
| 1444547 | 2018-01-08 20:37:00 | www.urbandictionary.com | Whenu (9358) | ||
| 1444548 | 2018-01-08 22:47:00 | lol | bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1444549 | 2018-01-08 23:29:00 | If true, - one thought comes to my mind as a former industrial chemist..is the "charge transfer process" (en.wikipedia.org)(Wikipedia) that can occur for for "metal - ligand" complexes. Colors materialize - i.e. become visible in certain spectrum's. (In chemistry, a coordination complex consists of a central atom or ion, which is usually metallic and is called the coordination centre, and a surrounding array of bound molecules or ions, that are in turn known as ligands or complexing agents. So...Colour change occurs when metal complexes are exposed to light (In chemistry/physics we call photons). True in Inorganic chemistry, - I have seen this when dissolving metal with "complex" chemical solutions - blue was the common outcome - it kind of materializes, but can become less intense, if less light. This results from outer electron molecular valency changes - which emits color due to electron (donor to acceptor) transfer. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1444550 | 2018-01-09 01:47:00 | Word Origin and History for blue blood Expand 1834, translating Spanish sangre azul, claimed by certain families of Castile as uncontaminated by Moorish or Jewish admixture, probably from the notion of the visible veins of people of fair complexion. Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1444551 | 2018-01-09 01:54:00 | I have heard both explanations, Roscoe and Whenu, with Kahawai chaser taking it another step further. I even asked "OK Google" who gave me the "no nonsense nobility" response:) Roscoe, I cannot confirm this but I have also heard that those who overindulge their taking of colloidal silver can end up with a blue tinge to their skins. (Maybe that's where they got the idea for the movie Avatar.) Perhaps it's the same as those who overindulge eating carrots end up with an orangey tinge. It has been said that we have some nobility in the family. I just checked my veins and ...Yep...they look blue. :devil |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1444552 | 2018-01-09 03:43:00 | www.urbandictionary.com From the medieval European belief that royalty and nobility had blue blood; the elite had enough power and wealth that they could afford to have peasants and the urban poor do their dirty work for them- since the aristocrats were able to stay inside and avoid long hours in the fields (and the sunlight), they were often so pale that their blue veins showed under their translucent skin, thus leading people to believe that their blood was blue. Yes. But actually Horseshoe Crabs are the only real blue bloods. Due to the copper rather than iron in their blood. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1444553 | 2018-01-09 07:12:00 | Bill Brysons book "AT Home" is full of stuff like that and well worth a read. Eg two of the most dangerous jobs in England were wallpaperers. As the wallpaper was full of arsenic. Annother great job, before they built the big sewers in London was cleaning out the sewage pits. Really! Quite a few guys died falling into them.... |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1444554 | 2018-01-10 06:34:00 | Plumbers who did lead work used to get a pint of milk a day, supposedly this was meant to stop lead poisoning in some way | gary67 (56) | ||
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