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IN a recent communication1, Dr. J. R. Baker has asked why a single red blood corpuscle looks yellow instead of pink. Whether a thinned-out red colour is pink or yellow depends on the extent of its absorption in the blue end of the spectrum. Let us for simplicity regard white light as composed of equal parts of red, green and blue. Imagine two coloured substances with extinction coefficients as follows:
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BOWEN, E. Colour of Red Blood Corpuscles. Nature 152, 476 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152476a0
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