Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter demonstrates a blood-separation procedure using a centrifuge. He spins a blood sample for 1.5 minutes to separate red and gold layers, then spins the gold layer again for 5 minutes, for a total of almost eight minutes.
1.5 minutes (one minute and a half).
5 minutes.
Almost 8 minutes.
And now we're transferring his blood into this tube here, which we'll then put in the centrifuge. We'll have to counterbalance it with a similar tube that's going to be full of water. Once we do that, we'll spin that first one for a minute and a half and it'll separate into a red layer at the bottom and a gold layer basically on top. We'll separate the gold layer off that and spin it one more time in here for another five minutes. So a total spin time of almost eight min.
Alright, so here's after our first spin.
And his separated layers there. We want to keep this nice and level so we don't incorporate them back together. Espy here is going to draw off this top yellow layer and we will put the top layer in here and we'll spin it one more time for five more minutes and then that will become our final product.
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