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  • verb Present participle of centrifuge.

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Examples

  • Similarly in a solution, when centrifuging is sufficiently rapid, the molecules of the dissolved substance must accumulate outwards if they are considerably heavier than the molecules of the solvent.

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1926 - Presentation Speech 1966

  • Planes carrying Iranian nuclear scientists mysteriously crash-land, equipment for the highly sensitive centrifuging operation to separate the highly fissionable but rare isotope U-235 from the relatively inert but far more plentiful U-238 has mysteriously malfunctioned, occasionally blowing up.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • Planes carrying Iranian nuclear scientists mysteriously crash-land, equipment for the highly sensitive centrifuging operation to separate the highly fissionable but rare isotope U-235 from the relatively inert but far more plentiful U-238 has mysteriously malfunctioned, occasionally blowing up.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • I also find it creepy that people spend a lot of money centrifuging their sperm in order to sex-select their children pre-conception.

    On the Irrelevance of the Causes of Homosexuality 2007

  • The contact process used to create the acid was producing arsenic that poisoned the catalyst, so Cottrell determined that centrifuging the arsenic-contaminated sulfuric acid mists would remove the arsenic.

    Cottrell, Frederick Gardner 2008

  • Focusing on Advances At the Hospital for Special Surgery, surgeons are also investigating the use of special clots formed by centrifuging the patient's own blood before surgery to isolate platelets that contain a number of different growth factors.

    New Techniques Tackle 2008

  • She is reported to have said they could have nukes within 16 days of sufficient centrifuging.

    Firedoglake » Demand Sane Leadership On Iran 2006

  • She is reported to have said they could have nukes within 16 days of sufficient centrifuging.

    Firedoglake » Demand Sane Leadership On Iran 2006

  • The key to it is the phrase, “sufficient centrifuging.”

    Firedoglake » Demand Sane Leadership On Iran 2006

  • Then, the age of mega-conglomerate centrifuging--think Vivendi Universal shedding entertainment assets--provided Redstone his solution: Let both COOs play father hen to their very own companies.

    NYSE Traders Reward Moonves' CBS, Freston's Viacom 2006

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