• @[email protected]
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    11 months ago

    For those who are curious it’s properly balanced. There are 24 slots available. Pairs: 1-13, 2-14, 6-18, 9-21, 10-22 Triple: 8-16-24 All pairs and triples have their centers of mass on the rotation axis.

    • @GraniteM
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      What do you do if there’s a prime number of test tubes, like the thirteen in the picture?

      • @dingus
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        If you don’t want to figure out some awkward balancing techniques, you can just use a balance tube. Fill a tube with water to a similar height of the tube it opposes.

      • veroxii
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        111 months ago

        They just explained it. If you have 3 you put them on 8-16-24. Everything else will be pairs which you put across from each other.

  • @[email protected]
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    3311 months ago

    I’ve heard an unbalanced ultracentrifuge explode and have seen the aftermath. Now that’s mad science!

    • @Contramuffin
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      1911 months ago

      Don’t worry, that’s actually perfectly balanced. That’s the mad part

  • FreshLight
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    I disagree. A real mad scientist is still a human and not a centrifuge

    • Nailbar
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      311 months ago

      He turned himself into a centrifuge in a mad science experiment!

  • @[email protected]
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    1611 months ago

    I’m going mad just looking at this. I mean maybe it’s actually balanced, but like… there are easier ways. Stop tryna flex and spin your shit down.

  • @[email protected]
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    1111 months ago

    Having dealt with this kind of thing before, it gives a new and more literal definition to the phrase “bloody idiot.”

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      That’s a properly balanced centrifuge. Perhaps we should be calling you the silly names.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    111 months ago

    Any time you see a video of a cat backing up and saying “no no no no no” it’s because they’re watching the researcher’s hand move toward the on switch of that centrifuge.