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mk · 1747 days ago · link · · parent · post: Inside SpinLaunch, the Space Industry’s Best Kept Secret
Surprisingly, 10,000g won’t do much of anything to solid state material. I’ve spun a grape at 5000g, and to my disappointment, after 10 min, it still looked like a grape. We use up to 200,000g to separate lipids from serum in plastic tubes. The issue is that centrifugal force only gets interesting if you have a free mass of significant density compressing the mass of interest. Maybe I’ll take some pics and spin a grape at 10,000g this week to demonstrate.