Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The driving of anything from the center or circumference; specifically, the separation of two immiscible liquids of different densities, or of suspended solid particles from a liquid, by the use of a centrifuge or centrifugal machine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the process of separating substances by the use of a centrifuge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process in which
mixtures areseparated using thecentripetal force generated byspinning in acentrifuge
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of separating substances of different densities by the use of a centrifuge
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Examples
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Motile sperm were isolated by Percoll centrifugation, the total RNA extracted and verified using sperm-specific RT-PCR.
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“Was the RNA degraded in the centrifugation step?”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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“Was the RNA degraded in the centrifugation step?”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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“Was the RNA degraded in the centrifugation step?”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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I'm in the midst of a 3.5 hour centrifugation, so I figured I might as well do follow up on her tag.
Random Things Amanda 2008
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I'm in the midst of a 3.5 hour centrifugation, so I figured I might as well do follow up on her tag.
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The bacterial culture is concentrated by centrifugation and disrupted by lysis with an alkaline detergent solution containing enzymes to degrade contaminating RNA.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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For many years, the method of choice for supercoiled plasmid and virus DNA purification was cesium chloride density gradient centrifugation in the presence of an intercalation agent (such as ethidium bromide or propidium iodide).
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Alcohol (isopropanol) precipitation concentrates the eluted plasmid DNA, which is collected by centrifugation, washed, and redissolved in buffer.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Recently, simplified ion-exchange column chromatography methods (commonly termed a mini-prep) have largely supplanted the cumbersome and time-consuming centrifugation protocol to yield large quantities of endotoxin-free plasmid DNA in a relatively short period of time.
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