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   From: bohn@cis.ohio-state.edu   
      
   Good afternoon,   
      
   On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Mark Coultrip wrote:   
      
   > I'm trying to write a story and I would like to know if there would be a   
   > difference discernable under Post Mortem between someone who died in a space   
   > station and was exposed to vacum to someone who died due to vacum.   
      
   Off the top of my head (bearing in mind I'm not a physician or biologist,   
   nor do I play either on TV), I'd look at the blood gasses.  Someone who   
   asphyxiated will probably have considerably less oxygenated blood.   
      
   Take care,   
   cb   
      
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