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  2. Blood alcohol content - Wikipedia

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    Blood alcohol content (BAC), also called blood alcohol concentration or blood alcohol level, is a measurement of alcohol intoxication used for legal or medical purposes. [1] BAC is expressed as mass of alcohol per volume of blood. In US and many international publications, BAC levels are written as a percentage such as 0.08%, i.e. there is 0.8 ...

  3. Reference ranges for blood tests - Wikipedia

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    Acid–base and blood gases are among the few blood constituents that exhibit substantial difference between arterial and venous values. [6] Still, pH, bicarbonate and base excess show a high level of inter-method reliability between arterial and venous tests, so arterial and venous values are roughly equivalent for these.

  4. List of human blood components - Wikipedia

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    <2 × 10 −9: day 100 to 2 days preceding 5-40 × 10 −9: day preceding parturition 100-200 × 10 −9: day following parturition <2 × 10 −9: Retinol (Vitamin A) 1-8 × 10 −7: Riboflavin (Vitamin B 2) 1.5-6 × 10 −7: 2.6-3.7 × 10 −8: RNA: 5-8 × 10 −4: 4-6 × 10 −5: Secretin: 2.9-4.5 × 10 −11: Serine: 3-20 × 10 −6 ...

  5. What Doctors Want You to Know About Drinking Water to Lower ...

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    One study published in Cureus in 2022 suggested that people with hypertension tended to have lower total body water percentage, suggesting a relationship between hydration status and high blood ...

  6. Vacutainer - Wikipedia

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    Blood culture bottle: Sodium polyanethol sulfonate (anticoagulant) and growth media for microorganisms: Usually drawn first for minimal risk of contamination. [8] Two bottles are typically collected in one blood draw; one for aerobic organisms and one for anaerobic organisms. [9] Blue ("light blue") Sodium citrate (weak calcium chelator ...

  7. USA downs rival Canada, wins group at world juniors hockey ...

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    The United States won the world junior hockey championship near the beginning of the 2024 calendar year. It took a big step toward a repeat by beating rival Canada 4-1 on the final day of 2024 to ...

  8. Scientists Urgently Warn: Stop Drinking Bottled Water - AOL

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    2. Plastic Bottles Can Leach Microplastics. Roughly 10% to 78% of bottled water samples contain contaminants, including microplastics. These are often hormone (endocrine) disruptors, and they're ...

  9. Alcohol measurements - Wikipedia

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    Ordinary distillation cannot produce alcohol of more than 95.6% by weight, which is about 97.2% ABV (194.4 proof) because at that point alcohol is an azeotrope with water. A spirit which contains a very high level of alcohol and does not contain any added flavoring is commonly called a neutral spirit. Generally, any distilled alcoholic beverage ...