Present participle of centrifuge; the ongoing process of using a centrifuge to separate substances by spinning at high speed.
From centrifuge verb plus present participle suffix -ing. The base word derives from Latin centro (at/in the center) and fugere (to flee).
When you're centrifuging a sample, you're actually creating an extreme environment that few organisms can survive—some scientists joke that it's one of the harshest conditions you can impose on biological material without using chemicals.
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