centrifuge
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈsɛntrɪˌfjuːdʒ/
- Specialized
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centrífuga
- Students at Rice University developed a salad spinner-based centrifuge for rural medical clinics to use in tests for anemia.
- centrifuge tubes
- centrifuge enrichment
- uranium-enrichment centrifuges
You'll need some live bacteria as well as a oh centrifuge and naturally safety equipment.
- You'll need some live bacteria as well as a oh centrifuge and naturally safety equipment.
- Just get naked, strap in, spin up, and that's a centrifuge baby in a net between your legs.
- You can't give a sensitive centrifuges and gyroscopes to rogue regimes like North Korea or Iran.
- So this is the malware that was attacking some of the industrial software in Iran with the centrifuges.
Examples
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One by one, the candidates are whipped around the centrifuge, subjected to higher and higher G-forces.
Fiction book (1997) -
I just finished a high G session in the centrifuge.
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How advanced is the centrifuge facility?
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Confirm the alarms are disabled in centrifuge room.
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But using the centrifuge, we're able to expedite that process and create tamari.
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Then the sample was transferred to a 50 mL polypropylene centrifuge tube.
Academic text (2018) -
The clinical infertility lab was a huge room with large incubators, centrifuges, and modern cryogenic units.
Fiction book (1991) -
Krauss-Maffei designs and builds centrifuges and mixers used mainly by chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Academic text (2006) -
In the lab, the technicians relied on the centrifuge to separate the plasma from the blood samples.
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The scientist used the centrifuge to isolate the different components of the liquid mixture.
Synonyms
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5.3
A machine that spins liquid to remove solids or cream
A very fast machine that spins samples to separate small parts like proteins
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Etymology
The word centrifuge comes from centr- meaning 'center' and -fuge meaning 'to flee', the same 'flee' idea you see in fugitive. When a centrifuge spins, parts are forced to 'flee' the center and form different layers, which is why it separates substances.