Abstract
Essentially, centrifuges used in laboratory settings or in the industry are devices for separating particles from a heterogeneous mixture. Fundamental to separation is the increase in the effective gravitational force by spinning the sample in the single cavity or the tubes of a rotor as the ‘mobile part’ of a centrifuge. Subjected to the respective centrifugal force thus applied, the individual constituents of a sample will differentially sediment according to their physical properties as well as the density and viscosity of the sample solution.