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I found this expression in a recently published article ( dailymail.co.uk):
The hope comes from Edinburgh and Bristol university researchers who have, for the first time, made thousands of millions of red blood cells from stem cells – ‘master cells’ seen as a repair kit for the body – taken from bone marrow. But with the average blood transfusion containing 2.5million million red blood cells, this is not enough.
Artificial blood made from stem cells could be used in transfusions in just two years | Mail Online
Is it correct? Why not say : "trillion" ?
BTW, the second million is not superfluous because the quantity would not be true.
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The hope comes from Edinburgh and Bristol university researchers who have, for the first time, made thousands of millions of red blood cells from stem cells – ‘master cells’ seen as a repair kit for the body – taken from bone marrow. But with the average blood transfusion containing 2.5million million red blood cells, this is not enough.
Artificial blood made from stem cells could be used in transfusions in just two years | Mail Online
Is it correct? Why not say : "trillion" ?
BTW, the second million is not superfluous because the quantity would not be true.
:?: