Definition of "microcentrifuge" []

• A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material) (noun)

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• "However, I did have a fairly bad time of it last night; so a microcentrifuge tube of EtBr to strange brain functions."
• "It consisted of mysterious enclaves of petri dishes and microcentrifuge tubes, wellheated offices, antiseptic conference rooms, and a lounge presided over by a scrofulous penguin in a glass case."
• "In a Harvard Medical School corridor on a rainy Saturday afternoon, a handful of graduate students are emptying boxes of scientific equipment into the hallway to take inventory: microcentrifuge tubes, radiation counters, micropipetters, Erlenmeyer flasks."