Is blood homogeneous mixture?

Since homogeniety is measured in two scale- visible scale and microscopic scale

In visible scale we can see that it is homogeneous mixture but in microscopic scale there is difference between the RBC, WBC and many more particles. Thus blood is homogeneous mixture or heterogeneous mixture?

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Solution

blood is a heterogeneous mixture including the plasma, platelets, white blood cells and red blood cells. the process of pheresis(which spins the blood) can separate it into its component parts which easily illustrates its heterogeneous nature.

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