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by Balgair 731 days ago
I mean, Gemini is just wrong here.

Yeah, sure cell densities vary (fat vs muscle) but pretty much any cell sample you're going to gather is going to be near the same density as the surrounding water environment. Again, there is a lot of variation though. The end result is that the density of a cell is near enough the density of water, it's not 100x more dense. I mean, iron is only ~8x more dense than water.

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100x was a demo, not an actual number. But please explain how does intracellular content with DNA, RNA, proteins, structural organoids and all of these metabolic constituents [0] is supposed to be the density of water. You want the cells in an endotelium of a blood vessel to float, allow the blood to get into the wall of the vessel and get hematomas and hemmorhages?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metabolic_Metro_Map.svg