Example Sentences

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Initially, the team could not detect any worms using standard techniques, but after the researchers adopted a method called sucrose-density centrifugation they consistently recovered live nematodes from every site.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024

Using research methods including centrifugation, he determined that the cause was not a virus, as other scientists had speculated, but rather a new, far smaller pathogen: the viroid.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

The “S” designation applies to “Svedberg” units, a nonadditive value that characterizes the speed at which a particle sediments during centrifugation.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Then you’d centrifuge it, and centrifugation just allows heavy things to settle and light things to remain on top.

From The Verge • Jan. 11, 2019

It is necessary to have some personal objects for which to give our lives if they are to be saved from centrifugation, from death through ingrowing affection.

From Religious Education in the Family by Cope, Henry Frederick