WhipTheHip
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Centerfuges spin their contents around and around in a circle. In ordinary labs, you place six test tubes in a metal wheel which spins around very fast, and parcipitate collects at the bottom of each tube. That with the greatest mass, ie weighs the most settles at the bottom from centrifugal force. When uranium floride gas is spun around, the heavier gas isotope collects at the bottom, this concentrated gas is collect and sent to other centerfuges where its purity is enhanced. When it is sufficiently high purity, it can be used to produce fissable material.
< Message edited by WhipTheHip -- 10/7/2006 11:26:34 PM >
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