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  • Better than my router, at about 27,000 rpm.

  • What on earth is going through your head to be looking at something like that? Building a mad scientist's lab in the basement?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ncc74656 ( 45571 ) *
      He's going to set up us the bomb...soon as he has a bomb to set up us with. :-)

    • Friend who works in a research lab was talking about doing protein synthesis this afternoon, and how one of the steps was pelletizing stuff in a centrifuge. So I got to wondering about the current state of the art in centrifuge technology, and there you go. A little heftier than the ones we used in high school. :-)

      No lab in my basement. I don't have a basement. So, no lab. Really.

  • Nice. I wondered how they could make it a benchtop model and still offer swinging bucket rotor as an option. Reading down the specs list, I see that the refrigeration is by thermoelectrics, which means no compressor. That explains why it's so small.

  • Nice (Score:2)

    by ryanr ( 30917 ) *

    Optima MAX-XP has the highest g-force ever.

    I think they misspelled evar.

  • My first thought is that at those speeds, the machine's balance must be *critical* for safe operation.

    My second thought involves REALLY spectacular cocktails... right out of test tubes! Lab-shooters, anyone? :^P

    • It would be useful for biofuels research. You wouldn't get much, but you could speed up the experiments to see which batch/technique worked the best. You could probably get extremely well stratified oil and otherwise layers.

  • Until I went to the link, I assumed there had been a discovery of a new exotic space body.

  • cost (Score:1)

    by lab16 ( 416283 )

    Do you know how much it costs?

    I would also be a bit worried about beakers breaking in it. One million Gs is a lot to handle.

    • If you have to ask... :-) The catalog page that I saw says "Call for quote". If I had to guess, I'd say somewhere in the $10,000 to $50,000 range, though I have little to no basis for those numbers. They probably don't sell all that many of them, and engineering costs would be high.

      For centrifuges in the 40,000 RPM range, I know that they use special polycarbonate containers for the samples. And the protocol requires that they be inspected very carefully for cracks before they are used. I do not know w

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