Past tense of centrifuge; subjected something to centrifugal force in a centrifuge to separate materials by density.
Regular past tense of centrifugate/centrifuge, formed by adding -ed suffix to the verb stem. The base word traces to Latin centrum and fugere.
Lab scientists probably centrifuge biological samples millions of times per day worldwide, and it's one of those procedures so common we barely think about it—yet it relies on understanding forces that seemed mysterious until the 1600s.
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