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Centrifugal filter

A filter as for sugar in which a cylinder with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action...

centrifugate

to drive out to subject to the action of a centrifuge...

centrifugation

the process of separating substances by the use of a centrifuge...

an apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid and separating substances such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid mixed together in suspension within the liquid Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device...