ultracentrifuge

IPA: ʌɫtrʌsˈɛntrʌfjudʒ

A high-speed centrifuge, especially one free from convection that is used to separate colloidal particles.

Examples of "ultracentrifuge" in Sentences

This weekend, I had a DNA prep in the ultracentrifuge.
And it turns out the only other ultracentrifuge in the building: also broken.
In the ultracentrifuge the large molecules are put under the influence of centrifugal forces up to about 106 gravity.
The other half he poured into a density gradient tube, diluted it with cesium chloride, and inserted it into the ultracentrifuge.
Perrin of Sorbonne for developing equilibrium sedimentation in colloidal solutions, a method which Svedberg later perfected in his ultracentrifuge.
Plenty of opportunity for sight gags, such as an unbalanced ultracentrifuge “walking” through a wall or the noob grad student accidentally setting her bench on fire.
His greatest achievement was, however, the construction of the ultracentrifuge, with which he studied not only the particle size distribution in gold sols but also determined the molecular weight of proteins, for example, hemoglobin.
Svedberg's investigations with the ultracentrifuge and Tiselius's electrophoresis studies (see Section 3.10) were instrumental in establishing that protein molecules have a unique size and structure, and this was a prerequisite for Sanger's determination of their amino-acid sequence and the crystallographic work of