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[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

to separate the conponents

Scientist here. That's what it's for. A centrifuge makes the tubes experience very high accelerations, like 100 times the force of gravity, to separate liquids and solids by density. For example you could put blood in there and get a layer of red blood cells and a layer of plasma stacked on top of each other.

[-] k48r@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

More like 16,000 x g for a normal desktop centrifuge and 80,000 x g+ for an ultracentrifuge

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