different between ferroprotoporphyrin vs ferriprotoporphyrin

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “ferro- + protoporphyrin?”)

ferroprotoporphyrin (countable and uncountable, plural ferroprotoporphyrins)

ferriprotoporphyrin (plural ferriprotoporphyrins)

A reddish-brown crystalline material, haematin hydrochloride, obtained by treatment of dried blood with salt and acetic acid, that was once used to detect traces of blood.

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