microcentrifuge
English edit
Etymology edit
From micro- + centrifuge.
Noun edit
microcentrifuge (plural microcentrifuges)
- A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
Verb edit
microcentrifuge (third-person singular simple present microcentrifuges, present participle microcentrifuging, simple past and past participle microcentrifuged)
- (transitive) To centrifuge in such a device.
- 2016 February 4, “Use of De Novo Transcriptome Libraries to Characterize a Novel Oleaginous Marine Chlorella Species during the Accumulation of Triacylglycerols”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Cell suspensions in RNAlater were microcentrifuged for one minute at 20,000 × g, and the pellets were re-suspended in the kit-provided buffer RLT.