Using a powerful fan, it sucked in dusty air and spun it around at high speed like a centrifuge. Spinning the dusty air was an effective way to separate the dust out of the air. In a washing machine, the same principle is used to spin water from clothes at the end of the wash ...
Spinning gets your clothes dry using the same idea as a centrifuge. The pump removes any remaining water from the outer drum and the wash cycle comes to an end. You take your clothes out and marvel at how clean they are! But there's still the problem of drying your wet clothes to ...
Laboratory tests examine the biological, chemical and physical properties of the cells and molecules that make up a blood specimen. The first step is often to centrifuge a blood specimen into separate components. This divides the sample into one portion that contains solid components, such as cells...