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Formation of Bile Pigments

                                Ring opens up

Heme  Biliverdin   Uses molecular O2, loses 1
                    C as CO which fuses to
                        1% of hemoglobin.

                  Fe3+ grabbed by ferritin to
                      make new hemoglobin

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