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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 147

Water's low viscosity
is essential for all liv-
ing things, even
plants. The tiny veins
in the leaf seen at the
left are able to trans-
port water because it
is so fluid.

can their by-products be discharged. There are many cells in an organism's

body and thus it is necessary for the oxygen and energy taken into the
body to be distributed (pumped) to them through "ducts" of some sort; sim-
ilarly, other channels are necessary to carry away the waste. These "ducts"
are the veins and arteries of the circulatory system. The heart is the pump
that keeps this system moving while the substance carried through the
"ducts" is the liquid we call "blood", which is mostly water. (95% of blood
plasma–the material remaining after blood cells, proteins, and hormones
have been removed, is water.)
This is why the viscosity of water is so important for the efficient func-
tioning of the circulatory system. If water had the viscosity of tar for ex-
ample, certainly no organic heart could pump it. If water had the viscosity
even of olive oil, which is a hundred million times less viscous than tar, the

heart might be able to pump it, but it would be extremely difficult and
blood would never be able to reach all the billions of capillaries that wend
their ways through our bodies.
Let's take a closer look at those capillaries. Their purpose is to carry the
oxygen, nourishment, hormones, etc that are necessary for life to every cell
everywhere in the body. If a cell is more than 50 microns (a micron is a
thousandth of a millimeter) away from a capillary it cannot take advantage
of the capillary's "services". Cells more than 50 microns from a capillary will
starve to death.