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You can buy a lab centrifuge (such as Optima MAX from Coulter) that does 150 000 RPM, (or as a more useful measure, about a million g). These are often used for
by puzzlingcaptcha 1y ago
You can buy a lab centrifuge (such as Optima MAX from Coulter) that does 150 000 RPM, (or as a more useful measure, about a million g). These are often used for virus purification.
But isotope separation is usually done on UF6, which is a gas. These centrifuges work a bit differently, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippe-type_centrifuge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippe-type_centrifuge