- Svedberg flotation unit
- (Sf) a unit equal to 10−13 second used for expressing negative sedimentation coefficients of macromolecules that float rather than sink in a centrifuge, e.g., lipoproteins.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Svedberg flotation unit
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Svedberg unit flotation unit — Sved·berg unit, flotation unit (sfedґbərg) [Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, 1884–1971, inventor of the ultracentrifuge and winner of the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1926 for his work on disperse systems] see under unit … Medical dictionary
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