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1 A The circles that you saw drawn on the
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2 slides, this is one of those circles which will give
3 you
4 Q The green circle?
5 A Yes, it is one -- this gives you some idea
6 just how much this is magnified. And the answer is
7 obviously a great deal. And this is a -- this is one
8 of the pieces of tissue that we have here and this is
9 a piece of lung with associated pleural plaque.
10 All of this pink here is pleural plaque.
11 And then you have underlying lung and then you have
12 all of this black stuff, which I will show you at
13 higher magnification in a minute, that has all sorts
14 of coal dust and carbon and other materials that were
15 part of what he inhaled in the garage because of the
16 extensive -- the fumes and whatnot.
17 So it is an indication of very heavy duty
18 exposure.
19 Now, this stuff here, this red stuff is
20 almost all just plain blood clot. It, in a sense,
21 doesn't count. It is just there.