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Obviously, the blood must always contain the factors needed to form a clot. You don't have time to waste waiting for your body to make them, while you lie there bleeding!

What are these factors?

If you look at a clot, you find that it contains platelets and other blood cells, trapped in a network of fibrin filaments.

How did these appear out of the blood, just where they were needed?

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