Commentary for Chullin 174:21

מכפרין תנינא חייבין בכסוי תנינא

But even that statement [is unnecessary], for if it is blood it renders susceptible to uncleanness, and if it is water it renders susceptibl to uncleanness! - It was only necessary to be stated for the case where it [the blood] was mixed with rain water.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'the tamad (the mixture of water and lees) was made with rain water', a phrase from the argument in B.B. 97a. Rain water cannot render foodstuffs susceptible to uncleanness except where it was intended for some purpose or use, a reservation which does not apply to blood.');">¹²</span>

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