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Ultracentrifugation

AQA AS-level BiologyCell StructureLesson 4 of 26

A high-speed centrifuge is able to separate out small particles by subjecting them to a centrifugal force.

This can be used to isolate cell organelles or analytically to determining the sizes of some particles or the molecular weights of large molecules.

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