Jesus Christ, the Man of the Shroud, and Biirubin by Carlo Goldoni. Sunday, August 17, 8:45 a.m.�9:00 a.m. (Posthumus paper) For a long time it has been proved that
the red stains visible on the cloth of the Shroud of Turin are blood clots.
Among many compounds, these clots also
contain a considerable amount of bilirubin with an unusual content, perhaps
of traumatic origin. This excess
of bilirubin could be the cause of the carmine red color that these blood
stains take under special
circumstances. In the past, in order to investigate the relationship between
the color of the stains and the amount of bilirubin, an experimental
campaign was carried out with three sets of blood samples with increasing
content of bilirubin (from 2�5 times the normal concentration): a set of the
sample was kept unchanged, a second set was aged in an oven for 10 hours at
a temperature of 120�C, and a third set was exposed for six hours to the
ultraviolet light. Only
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