Learn something new every day More Info... by email Centrifuging
is a process where a material is spun in a cylindrical chamber
that rotates around a fixed axis to utilize both sedimentation
processes and the force of centripetal acceleration to
mechanically separate mixed materials from each other. Though
centrifuges are used in a laboratory setting to purify
biological samples and in large numbers to enrich uranium for
nuclear fuel, they are also common in manufacturing for many
purposes, including to process waste water by municipalities and
to produce pharmaceuticals or live drug cultures such as
vaccines. Other common manufacturing arenas that utilize
centrifuging are the food processing industry, mining and
mineral processing, and chemical processing in general. Spinning
materials via centrifugal force causes mixtures of materials
with different densities to separate in two key ways. Heavier or
denser materials gravitate both towards the bottom of the
centrifuge and towards the outer wall of the cylinde