To subject a substance to centrifugal force using a centrifuge machine, typically to separate components of different densities.
From centrifuge (noun) plus -ate verb suffix. Centrifuge itself comes from Latin centrum 'center' and fugere 'to flee,' originally named for the apparent fleeing-from-center action that separates materials.
When doctors spin your blood in a centrifuge to separate plasma from cells, they're literally making Earth's gravity feel thousands of times stronger in one direction—it's one of the few ways we can artificially amplify gravity in everyday lab work.
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