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Check Your Understanding A centrifuge used in DNA extraction spins at a maximum rate of 7000 rpm, producing a “g-force on the sample that is 6000 times the force of gravity. If the centrifuge takes 10 seconds to come to rest from the maximum spin rate: (a) What Is the
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