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The Weight of Blood is a 2022 young adult horror novel by Tiffany D. Jackson.Set in the fictional "sundown town" of Springville, Georgia, the story follows Maddy Washington, a biracial high school senior who has been forced by her racist father to hide her ethnicity by passing as white and straightening her hair.
An article by Snopes in 2013 said the experiment was flawed because the methods used were suspect, the sample size was much too small, and the capability to measure weight changes too imprecise, concluding: "credence should not be given to the idea his experiments proved something, let alone that they measured the weight of the soul as 21 grams."
The Weight of Blood (HarperCollins, 2022) Picture books. Santa in the City, illustrated by Reggie Brown (Dial, 2021) Trick-or-Treating in the City, illustrated by Sawyer Cloud (Dial, 2024) Short stories. in His Hideous Heart, edited by Dahlia Adler (Flatiron, 2019)
Blood is a complex liquid. Blood is composed of plasma and formed elements.The plasma contains 91.5% water, 7% proteins and 1.5% other solutes. The formed elements are platelets, white blood cells, and red blood cells.
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Dalglish used to live in Missouri where he worked odd jobs before self-publishing his first novel, The Weight of Blood, in 2010.In 2013, after releasing fifteen novels as e-books [2] and more than 200,000 sales, Dalglish signed a publishing deal with Orbit Books [3] [4] to re-release his Shadowdance Series of novels. [5]
Blood accounts for 7% of the human body weight, [9] [10] with an average density around 1060 kg/m 3, very close to pure water's density of 1000 kg/m 3. [11] The average adult has a blood volume of roughly 5 litres (11 US pt) or 1.3 gallons, [10] which is composed of plasma and formed elements.
In mammals, hemoglobin makes up about 96% of a red blood cell's dry weight (excluding water), and around 35% of the total weight (including water). [5] Hemoglobin has an oxygen-binding capacity of 1.34 mL of O 2 per gram, [6] which increases the total blood oxygen capacity seventy-fold compared to dissolved oxygen in blood plasma alone. [7]