Klinostat, horizontal clinostat, single axis clinostat
Uses
reduces the effect of gravity on organisms, chiefly used with plants
Inventor
Julius von Sachs
Related items
random positioning machine
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A clinostat is a device which uses rotation to negate the effects of gravitational pull on plant growth (gravitropism) and development (gravimorphism). It has also been used to study the effects of microgravity on cell cultures, animal embryos and spider webs.
A clinostat is a device which uses rotation to negate the effects of gravitational pull on plant growth (gravitropism) and development (gravimorphism)...
gravity. The RPM is a more sophisticated development of the single-axis clinostat. RPMs usually consist of two independently rotating frames. One frame...
weightlessness for biological sample is a "3D-clinostat," also called a random positioning machine. Unlike a regular clinostat, the random positioning machine rotates...
the field of science concerned with plants in a spaceflight environment Clinostat – a device used to the effects of gravitational pull Random positioning...
his research on heliotropism and geotropism, in which he introduced the clinostat; his work on the structure and the arrangement of cells in growing-points;...
experiment. The Human Spaceflight Laboratory is also equipped with a clinostat, an autoclave, a laminar flow cabinet, microscopes, medical diagnosis...
machine (FFM) addresses some of the problems of the simple horizontal clinostat or random positioning machines (RPM). In a typical machine samples are...
medication, enzymes and plants during microgravity simulation inside a 3D clinostat Human factors in aviation Psychological performance during microgravity...
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