cyntrifigual force

Nice job SParkomatic.

milo

however the strong chemical bonds in water cannot be separated by centrifugal forces. Similarly with uranium, you are separating mechanically the heavier fractions of UF6 in a cascade manner that typically requires many thousands of theoretical plates.

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/enrichment.html

Hello aurizon

Yes, the uranium enrichment process is neither speedy, nor cheap.

Kind Regards....

I assume that is why the facilities for these separations were so huge.

yes, the separation per centrifuge or per diffusion cell is very small, neccessitating enormous numbers of them in countercurrent cascade as well as in many parallel banks. The plutonium bomb is easier to make.

we are lucky it is so hard or there would be a lot more of them

One of the issues with the structure of whirling water at extremely high accelerations might be the structure of its container.

At what point does the water separate and the presumably crystalline structure of the container not (philosophical question, for illustration purposes)?

This may not help, but your post reminded me of a concept I was working on a few years back in the pharmaceutical industry.

A company contracted me to develop a new process to replace a chromatography column, (I believe because that process was locked up in patents, and the process has been around for a while and they were looking for a new process) see link;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_chromatography

I had developed a centrifuge type concept with this in mind, using the same principles as the chromatography column.

Your comment; i know when mixing foods this works

as well as sparkstation's picture looks like a form of centrifuge called a separator in the dairy industry, to separate the cream. They spin at approx. 4000 rpm.

phoenix911