Re: Can you centrifuge a solution fast enough to separate the components?

Date: Tue Jan 13 15:18:30 2004
Posted By: Dan Berger, Faculty Chemistry/Science, Bluffton College
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 1071173751.Ch

Message:


Solutions cannot be separated by any means short of distillation (or 
evaporation if one of the components is involatile). It's as simple as that.

Only suspensions can be separated by centrifugation.

                                                               Dan Berger

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