That happens to be the frequency of radiation emitted by the iron ion in haemoglobin.
Because of haemoglobin, the molecule that carries oxygen around, which is held in the red
blood cells. in the haemoglobin is an atom of iron which can be in an oxidised state, i.e with an atom of oxygen attached to it, making it red, or in a non oxidized state, when it is blue.
Haemoglobin is pumped through the lungs, where it is oxygenated then on around the
body to where the oxygen is required When the oxygen is used up the haemoglobin is routed back via the veins, and then back through the lungs again.
Actually, the reason arterial
blood, which has just a little more oxygen in it than does venous
blood when it leaves the lungs to circulate through the
body, appears bright red is that the combination of iron, oxygen, and hemoglobin absorbs higher energy wavelength
light (blue and green) which leaves the red wavelengths available for our eyes to sense.
The venous
blood is never blue, it is always just a darker color of red, a burgundy or maroon color of red, the reason for it to be a darker red is because it has s
lightly less oxygen but much more because it carries "waste" away from the
body tissues and back to the kidneys for filtering. This "waste" darkens the red color of the
blood (think of it as dirty
blood).
It is not correct to say that by being back in contact with air venous
blood instantly oxygenates and turns red and therefore always appears red outside the
body. That is a myth. It is red inside the
body as well. When you look at unopened veins inside the
body, in endoscopy, for example, they are a dark red color. And the blue appearance of the veins through the skin is a factor of the skin itself. It is an optical property of the reflection of
light off
light colored skin and the difference in that reflection from the veins under the skin (but near the surface). I'll not go into the complexities of that optical process but the blue-looking veins are mostly all about the skin and reflection. If arteries were visible through the skin (they are too deep), then they, too, would have a blueish appearance the same as the veins for the same reasons.