Microconcentrator

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A very small concentrator

    "The PCR products were purified using a Microcon-100 microconcentrator in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions (Millipore, Bedford, MA, USA), and then sequenced using a BigDye Terminator Cycle-Sequencing kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, USA) and ABI Prism 3100 DNA sequencer (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, USA)."

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"The PCR products were purified using a Microcon-100 microconcentrator in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions (Millipore, Bedford, MA, USA), and then sequenced using a BigDye Terminator Cycle-Sequencing kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, USA) and ABI Prism 3100 DNA sequencer (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, USA)."

Etymology

From micro- + concentrator.

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