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Can a salad spinner be used effectively as a centrifuge?

Asked by Strauss (23643points) March 10th, 2015

(Spoiler alert!) In the recent episode (S1:E18, Once Bitten, Twice Die) of the TV show Scorpion, they use a salad spinner as a centrifuge to separate blood elements in order to produce an antidote to snakebite. Is this feasible? Or is it just “fiction is stranger than truth?”

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