Medical Definition of Sedimentation coefficient
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The ratio of the velocity of sedimentation of a molecule to the centrifugal force required to produce this sedimentation.
It is a constant for a particular species of molecule and the value is given in Svedberg units that, it should be noted, are nonadditive.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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